MATTER OF BENWARE v. Benware Creamery

This is an appeal by the employer and carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s .Compensation Board which unanimously affirmed a Referee’s determination and award. Claimant suffered from Raynaud’s disease, a vaso-motor disturbance which is functional rather than organic in nature and which affects chiefly the hands, causing them to become white and cold, then congested and finally in some eases, gangrenous. Appellants dispute the occupational nature of claimant’s ailment and also argue that, the record is devoid of substantial medical evidence of disability during the period for which the…