Hoard v. West Chemical Co.

This is an employee’s original petition for benefits under the workmen’s compensation act. The cause is before us on his appeal from a decree of the full commission affirming the decree of the trial commissioner which denied and dismissed his petition.

The employee completed the petition in his own handwriting and filed it with the commission. He alleges therein that on June 5, 1967, while performing the duties of his employment with respondent, he “took sick and [had] dizzy spells while handling chemicals and acid.”

At the hearings before the trial commissioner the employee was represented by…