CAMPBELL BAKERIES et al. v. BAUMEISTER et al.

CAMPBELL BAKERIES et al. v. BAUMEISTER et al.
1932 OK 715
15 P.2d 989
160 Okla. 94
Case Number: 23067
Decided: 11/01/1932
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

CAMPBELL BAKERIES et al.
v.
BAUMEISTER et al.

Syllabus

¶0 1. Master and Servant--Workmen's Compensation -- Occupational Disease not Compensable Under Law.
Section 7283, C. O. S. 1921, as amended by chapter 61, Session Laws 1923 [O. S. 1931, sec. 13349], provides, by section 1 thereof, that compensation as provided for in the Workmen's Compensation Act shall be payable for injuries sustained by employees engaged in hazardous employment, and paragraph 7 of section 7284 defines "injury" and "personal injury" to mean only accidental injuries arising out of and in the course of employment and such diseases and infections as may naturally result therefrom, making the foundation of such compensation claim a casualty and excluding occupational diseases as a basis of such compensation.
2. Same -- Injury to Bakery Employee Caused by Handling Heavy Containers Over Period of Time Held not Compensable.
Record examined, and held: The award of the State Industrial Commission is contrary to law and to the evidence.

Original proceeding in the Supreme Court by the Campbell Bakeries and insurance carrier to review an award of State Industrial Commission in favor of Alex Baumeister. Award vacated.

Hayes, Richardson, Shartel, Gilliland & Jordan, for petitioners.
Hagan & Gavin and J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., for respondents.

ANDREWS, J.

¶1 This is an original proceeding in this court instituted by the respondent and its insurance carrier before the State Industrial Commission to review an award in favor of the claimant therein. The parties hereinafter will be referred to as petitioners and claimant, respectively.

¶2 The claimant was employed by the petitioner Campbell Bakeries in a bakery owned and operated by it. He testified that his work necessitated his handling heavy containers of material; that in the early part of August, 1930, he commenced to have pains in his back, hip, and right leg; that those pains "just came on me gradually," commencing about August 4th; that he reported the fact about four or five days thereafter; that he was unable to say what particular lifting or handling caused his injury; that he could not give the time or place when his injury occurred, and that on the date fixed by him in his notice of injury nothing happened other than what had already existed for a week or more.

¶3 The physicians who examined him testified that his trouble was caused by the handling of heavy objects over a period of time.

¶4 The record discloses no such accidental personal injury as is contemplated by the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act of Oklahoma. It shows that the claimant is suffering from an industrial or occupational condition caused by the character of work in which he was engaged.

¶5 Under the decisions of this court in St. Louis Mining & Smelting Co. v. State Industrial Commission, 113 Okla. 179, 241 P. 170; Thomas v. Ford Motor Co., 114 Okla. 3, 242 P. 765; United States Gypsum Co. v. McMichael, 146 Okla. 74, 293 P. 773; Ford Motor Co. v. Scruggs, 154 Okla. 219, 7 P.2d 479, and Imperial Refining Co. v. Buck, 155 Okla. 25, 7 P.2d 908, the condition of the claimant is not compensable under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act of Oklahoma, and the award of the State Industrial Commission for that reason must be vacated.