Claim of Mayr v. Price

Appeal by employers and their insurance carrier from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board for disability due to bronchial asthma (with concomitant emphysema and bronchitis) which the board found to be an occupational disease contracted in claimant’s employment as a baker by exposure to dust, fumes, flour, molds and yeast, to which claimant was allergic. The board held further that the bronchial asthma was caused by claimant’s 42 years of employment as a baker, including that with appellant employers — the last in which he was exposed to the offending agents. There was…