Moore Shipbuilding Co. v. Industrial Accident Commision

This is an original proceeding in certiorari to review an order of the Industrial Accident Commission awarding compensation to Charles Simmons. The facts of the case are that for about two months immediately prior to March 6 or 7, 1924, the applicant was employed as a burner of armor plate by the petitioner Moore Shipbuilding Company. From March 7 to March 10, 1924, he was not employed and on the latter date he entered the employ of the General Metal Supply Company, for which he worked as a burner until he was disabled by lead poisoning on March 21, 1924. The petitioner Aetna Life Insurance Company was the compensation carrier for its copetitioner during the entire period of the applicant's employment by that company and two other insurance companies were successively carriers for the General Metal Supply Company during his employment by that concern. A hearing was had before the respondent Commission on the application of the employee for compensation, and as a result of that hearing the respondent found that while employed as a burner by the General Metal Supply Company the applicant “contracted lead poisoning due to exposure of fumes containing lead in the course of his work.”…