IBP, Inc. v. Burress

STREIT, Justice.

Pigs give us bacon and ham. They can also give meat packers brucellosis. Lee Burress contracted brucellosis while working at IBP, Inc.’s meat-packing plant. He did not discover he had the disease until six years after he left IBP’s employment. Soon thereafter, he filed a petition for workers’ compensation benefits. The deputy commissioner determined brucello-sis was an injury, not an occupational disease. The commissioner affirmed. The district court reversed, concluding Bur-ress suffered from an occupational disease, not an injury. The court of appeals reversed the district…