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Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
suite 2100 Atrium Two . 221 t. Fourth Street post Office b o x 023 Cincinnati,Ohio 45201-0236 * Telephone (SI3) 421-8777 Telecopier (313) 421-0107
Arthur l. vorys 1856-1033
Lowry F. Sater laer-isas
Augustus T: Seymour 1873-192
Edward L. Pease 1873-1624
in Columbus 52 East Gay street Post Office Box toos ColumbliS, Ohio 43216-1008
Telephone (614) 4-64-64-00 Telecopier (ei4i 464-0350 Raplfax <Qi4) 464-0453 Telex 241348
Cable VORYSATEA
in Washington Suite mt 1828 L street, n w Washington, D.C. 20036*5104
Telephone 1202} 822-8200 Telecopier (202)835-0690 Telex 440693
in Cleveland 2too On Cleveland Center 1375 East Ninth street Cleveland,Ohio 44i 14-1724
Telephone (2t6) 621-7091 Telecopier (2621-83Q6
December 4, 1986
Mr. Anthony J. Colangelo
Workers' Compensation Claims Examiner
The Sherwin-Williams Company
101 Prospect Avenue, N.W. Cleveland, Ohio 44115-1075
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Re; Claimant. Claim No: 888596-22
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Dear Tony:
I wish to report on my attendance at the workers' compensation hearing held in Cincinnati on December 3, 1986. The claimant was present at the hearing with his attorney, Dennis Miller. The Staff Hearing Officers were Michael Gilday and Lisa Grosse.
As you know, the issue at the hearing was the employer's appeal from the decision of the Dayton Regional Board which had allowed the claim for "coronary insufficiency resulting in aggravation of pre-existing angina and chemical induced bronchial asthma". The District Hearing Officer had previously disallowed the claim in its entirety. Rather than focus on the issue of aggravation of pre-existing angina I set forth in detail the background of the claim and its relationship to the allowed claim for the 1983 injury.
X informed the Staff Hearing Officers that the claimant had been exposed to chemical gases on October 17, 1983. After his exposure, he filed a claim with the Bureau of Workers' Compensation which was allowed for "inhalation of chlorine resulting in tracheobronchitis and bronchiolitis," I stated that the 1983 claim had not been contested by the employer and that the employer had paid benefits and compensation in that claim. X informed the hearing officers that the only issue in this claim was the claimant's exposure to vinyl and chloride vapors which occurred on April 16, 1984. I submitted a copy of the self insuring employer's report of industrial injury which contained a statement signed by the claimant listing the chemicals to which he had been exposed on April 16, 1984. I informed them that Dr. Starr Ford, the claimant's treating physician, had diagnosed the claimant's injury resulting from the chemical exposure in 1984 as