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Central Azucarera Don Pedro vs. WCC

CENTRAL AZUCARERA DON PEDRO, petitioner, vs. WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION COMMISSION and NEMESIO TANIO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-29670 | 1987-10-09

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Nemesio Tanio started working at the Central Azucarera Don Pedro (hereafter simply referred to as the CENTRAL) as a laborer, picking up strewn cane, during the 1946-1947 milling season. Starting with the 1954-1955 milling season, he was assigned as operator of an electrically operated cane-unloading machine. 1

Tanio stopped working on February 9, 1960, allegedly because he began to spit blood at this time. An x-ray examination conducted by the CENTRAL's physician revealed that Tanio was suffering from minimal pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in the right lung. He was consequently confined at the CENTRAL's...