West Virginia’s Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a finding that a worker was entitled to benefits for his occupational asthma from his on-the-job chemical exposures.
Case: Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Pritt, No. 24-ICA-355, 04/29/2025, published.
Facts: Richard Pritt worked for Weyerhaeuser Co. In July 2020, a Weyerhaeuser employee informed Pritt that the respirator filter he used while working with methylene diphenyl diisocyanate and formaldehyde was not approved for exposure to those chemicals.
In May 2023, Pritt saw Dr. Syam Stoll and reported several significant incidents of occupation...
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