Claim of Snir v. J. W. Mays, Inc.

Appeal by an employer and its insurance carrier from a

decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board which awarded for disability caused by myositis, found by the board to be an occupational disease. The facts were stipulated and causal relationship is conceded, and the only issue is whether the disabling condition meets the test of occupational disease. As was stipulated, claimant, a cashier in the giftware department of the employer’s department store, worked for four months at a cash register in an area where the air conditioning was very cold and created a draft on her right side; *753which…