Illinois Appellate Court
Civil Court
Workers' Compensation
Claimant worked as underground coal miner for 31 years, and filed application under Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, alleging that as a result of inhaling coal-mine dust, we has shortness of breath and exercise intolerance. Commission properly found that claimant proved he has workers' pneumoconiosis causally related to his work as a coal miner, and that he showed disablement within two years of leaving coal mining and was unable to work further in coal mining without further endangering his health. (HOLDRIDGE, HOFFMAN, HARRIS, and STEWART, concurring; HOFFMAN, HOLDRIDGE, and STEWART, specially concurring.)