Industrial Commission v. Roth

Citations

• 98 Ohio St. (N.S.) 34

Syllabus

<p>Workmen’s compensation — Occupational disease — 'Lead poisoning — Accidental inhaling of fumes.</p> <p>1. A disease contracted in the natural and ordinary course of employment, by a person engaged in a particular calling or occupation, which disease from common experience is known to be a usual and customary incident to such oalling or occupation, is an “occupational disease,” and not within the contemplation, of the Workmen’s Compensation Law.</p> <p>2. The accidental and unforeseen inhaling by an employe, in the course of his employment, of a specific, volatilfe poison or gas, resulting in injury or death, is not an “occupational disease.”</p>