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WORK. COMP., ET AL. v. PA.-B. A. CORP., ET AL.

No. 1443 C.D. 1974.

18 Pa.Commw. 243 (1975)

Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Lue Ada Seagraves, Widow of Joseph W. Seagraves, Appellees, v. Pennsylvania-Bradford Appliance Corporation and Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company, Insurance Carrier, Appellants.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

April 1, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. McElvenny, for appellants.

Stanley M. Poplow, with him James N. Diefenderfer, for appellees.

Argued March 6, 1975, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., MENCER and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, April 1, 1975:

In this gruesome Workmen's Compensation case, it is conceded that claimant-appellee's decedent was killed when his head was crushed in a large press machine used to force-fit tops on boilers or tanks. The question to be determined is whether the decedent's death was accidental or whether the death was intentionally self-inflicted. The referee found that the decedent inserted

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