Gibson v. Consolidation Coal Co.

OPINION

HENRY, Justice.

In this workmen’s compensation action the trial judge found that plaintiff was totally disabled by the occupational disease of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis and awarded benefits under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. We affirm.

I

Section 50-1102, T.C.A., provides in pertinent part:

In considering whether an employee has the occupational disease of coal worker’s pneumoconiosis and is totally disabled or dies therefrom all the presumptions, criteria and standards contained in or promulgated by reason of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969,…