No workers’ compensation for former miner with lung cancer

Years of smoking and old age were as much causal factors as lifetime job in nickel smelter: Tribunal

The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has denied the claim of a miner who developed lung cancer after nearly four decades in the mining industry but had other factors that may have contributed to the disease.

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