Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is, by the workman’s choice, an aggravation case, in consequence of which he has assumed what seems a totally unnecessary, difficult, and perhaps impossible burden of proof.

The workman filed a claim August 14, 1947, for the occupational disease of dermatitis due.to exposure to glue, and fixed the date of August 4, 1947, as the date the disease first bothered him. He was employed at that time by the Washington Veneer Corporation (which has since been merged with the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Company, respondent here) as a sheet turner, which brought him into close proximity to and in…