Hamlin v. Roseburg Lumber Co.

FORT, S. J.

The problem presented by this worker’s compensation appeal is whether or not the claimant sustained any permanent disability as a result of her job-connected aggravation of a preexisting bronchial asthmatic condition. It is conceded that after several weeks of close exposure to welding fumes while working, she sustained an acute severe bronchial asthmatic attack in February 1972 requiring hospitalization for a month and later required further hospital confinement on at least two occasions for severe recurrent attacks. Her claim was accepted by the employer and the Workers’…