OPINION BY DITHRICH, J., November 15, 1949:
Claimant in this workmen's compensation case admittedly is totally disabled due to anthraco-silicosis. He had worked most of his life as a miner exposed to a silica hazard. In 1945, when he was about sixty years of age, his employer gave him a lighter job as "topman" tending a conveyor belt in the mine. In that position there was, according to claimant, "plenty of it," meaning dust. The attending physician testified that...
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