Employee regularly exposed to diesel exhaust fumes, other hazardous materials, doctor says
An employee sustained industrial injuries to her colon along with ovarian cancer, a hernia, and peripheral neuropathy, a worker’s compensation administrative law judge recently found. A panel of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board of California upheld this finding.
Beginning in 1984, the applicant in the case of Arbogast vs. California Highway Patrol, legally uninsured, administered by State Compensation Insurance Fund worked as a traffic officer for California Highway Patrol. She received a cancer diagnosis in 2014. She had two surgeries to remove the cancer.
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Qualified medical examiners for oncology and neurology examined the applicant. The oncology examiner reported that her work history included performing commercial inspection activities and attending to vehicular and residential fires. These activities allegedly regularly exposed her to diesel exhaust fumes from idling commercial vehicles and trucks and to other hazardous materials.
The medical examiner in neurology noted that the applicant should frequently visit the oncologist and the endocrinologist since clear cell ovarian cancer had a high risk of recurrence.
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