Lahti v. M. A. Hanna Co.

Rogosheske, Justice.

Certiorari to review a decision of the Industrial Commission denying compensation to an employee. In 1959 the employee filed his petition for disability benefits alleging that he was permanently totally disabled from silicosis due to employment in iron ore mining operations.

He began work in the mines in 1912 when he was 19 years of age. From that time until 1942 he was regularly employed as a contract miner in various underground mines at, or near, Hibbing, Minnesota. It was conclusively established that during this period he was exposed to the inhalation of silica dust…