Barr v. Vickers, Inc.

PREWITT, Judge.

Claimant sought benefits under the workmen’s (now workers’) compensation law because he had the occupational disease of silicosis. See §§ 287.063, RSMo Supp. 1975, and 287.067, RSMo 1969. 1 Following a hearing, the administrative law judge denied the claim on May 17, 1979. Claimant appealed and on May 11,1981, the Industrial Commission reversed the administrative law judge and entered an award in claimant’s favor. 2 On March 26,1982, the circuit court determined “that there was not sufficient competent evidence to warrant that a hazard of the disease of silicosis existed in the…