Columbia Construction Co. v. Sims

OPINION

FONES, Justice:

This is a workmen’s compensation action in which the only issue is whether the disease that has caused appellee’s disability is compensable as an “occupational disease” under T.C.A. § 50-1101 as it existed in March 1977.1

*707The facts are not in dispute. Appellee was employed by appellant from April 1976 until March 1977 as a welder on a job site at the Monsanto Chemical Company in Columbia. In the course of his employment, ap-pellee was regularly exposed to phosphorous smoke containing P205. On two occasions appellee was engulfed by the smoke for approximately ten minutes.…