GRAHAM, Judge.
Defendant does not dispute the fact plaintiff suffers some disability from silicosis contracted while exposed to silica during his employment by defendant. It says, however, that plaintiff is only partially incapacitated by his condition, and that the Commission erred in finding his disability to be total.
The term "disablement" as applied to cases of asbestosis and silicosis, "means the event of becoming actually incapacitated because of asbestosis...
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