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Kyo < - -SI Digest of Industrial Hygiene - 3. and a portion of another was equipped with a hood to carry away fuses and sxoe heat. The heavy duty furnace was without a hood. The claimant became sick, dizzy, had difficulty in breathing, end suffered a general collapse. Medical examination led to the conclusion that he was suffering from polycythemia oaus by carbon monoxide poisoning. Certain tests were made to detexsine the amount of carbon monoxide gas given off by the furnaces, and an amount insufficient t be injurious was roported. However, the Supreme Court said such tests were not mads under conditions comparable to those under which the alalaont worked. It said further, in reversing tho Judgment, that the clreunstanee of- being ex posed to the poisonous gas, and bolng in e physical condition gonerally attri buted by medical science to poisoning from that gas, and tho absence of any other pcssiblo oauso for tho condition, seem Buffioient to establish that the claimant was a victim of on occupational poisoning. Loucks va. Diamond Chat: and Mfg. Co. (Indiana) 32 N.E. 2nd 308 (March, 1941). Oecup. Hazards, 3, 23, (May, 1941). 424 Additional Occupational Diseases for Delaware. Compensablo occupational diseases shall not Include any other than those sohedulod below and shall include these so scheduled only when exposure stated in connection therewith has occurred during -the employment, and the disability ha commenced within five months after the termination of such exposure! Occupational Diaeasos: Anthrax; Load Poisoning; Mercury Poisoning; Araonic Poisoning; Caisson Disease; Mssotborlus or radium poison ing; Carbon disulphide; i Phosphorous Poisoning; -- Benzene, and its hcmologuos, and all derivatives thereof;. Hood Alcohol Poisoning; Chromo Poisoning; Hydrogen Sulphide; Daxmatltls; Silicosis; Poison Ivy; Oak Poison. (As amended by S. B. 230, Sec. 10, Lam 1941, Effective May 6, 1941.) (CCH). 425 Left Inguinal Hernia. Hernia Considered an Occupational Disease. Total Dlsabi itjr. This la an appeal by defendant frtxa an award by the Department of Labor and In dustry awarding to plaintiff compensation for total disability. Did plaint suffer a hernia in the nature of an occupational disease? Plaintiff was <nplo ed by defendant as a sand mixer; his duties wore to load sand on a wheelbarrow and wbcol it across the plant to a mixing machine. A part of his duties wan twice a week for about two hours to bail out of a well a composition referred us slush. Aftar. lifting about four pails from the wall ha fait a pain in the right groin. The next day plaintiff told his foreman, Bulak, that ha had rup tured himself. Tho testimony of tho plaintiff together with the report of tbs coma! salon of physicians fully justifies tho finding of tho board that plain tiff1 b hornia resulted from lifting the poll of solvent from the wall. Plain tiff1 e position in doing this work would be entirely difforont than that of ox doing ordinary hoavy lifting or carrying, and it is entirely reasonable to ini from theso olrounstanoos that plaintiff in. this work was subjected to an must strain and that a hornia resulted therofraa. Was tbaro competent evidence that plaintiff suffered a total disability? There was evidence upon which th dopart&Gnt could make such a finding and this court may not review its flndlaf as to facts. Tho award is afflrmod. Brozozowakl v. Swedish Crucible Steal Co., Mich. Supreme Ct. Decided Juno 2, 1941. (CCH).