Opinion
September 23, 1993
Appeal from the Workers' Compensation Board.
The causal relationship between employment and a disease or its effect upon a preexisting condition are factual questions for the Workers' Compensation Board (see, Matter of Dando v Binghamton Bd. of Educ., 111 A.D.2d 1060; Matter of Lemery v Flintkote Co., 105 A.D.2d 538). We find that there is support in the record for the Board's findings that the necessary causal relationship between the initial outbreak of claimant's skin condition and claimant's employment was not established and that any subsequent aggravation of the condition was not compensable as an occupational disease in this case.
Mikoll, J.P., Yesawich Jr., Mercure, Crew III and Mahoney, JJ., concur. Ordered that the decision is affirmed, without costs.