Norris v. Drexel Heritage Furnishings, Inc./Masco

WYNN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from an opinion and award of the Industrial Commission denying her claim for compensation arising out of an alleged occupational disease.

Compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Act may be awarded for “[a]ny disease . . . which is proven to be due to causes and conditions which are characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation or employment, but excluding all ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is equally exposed outside of the employment.” N.C. Gen. Stat. § 97-53(13) (1999). Thus, for a disease to be compensable under…