MATTER OF O'NEIL v. AM. LOCOMOTIVE CO.


276 A.D. 1043 (1950)

In the Matter of the Claim of Walter O'Neil, Respondent, v. American Locomotive Company, Appellant. Workmen's Compensation Board, Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 15, 1950.


For approximately a year claimant was assigned to the duty of operating a degreasing machine which required him to clean machine parts in a tank containing carbon tetrachloride. At the time he began his employment he had an arrested case of pulmonary tuberculosis. There is medical testimony to sustain the finding that his exposure to tetrachloride fumes reactivated his tubercular condition, and caused disability. The board found that such disability was the result of an occupational...

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