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PLASTEEL PROD. CORP. v. W. C. A. BD. ET AL.

No. 1882 C.D. 1976.

32 Pa.Commw. 405 (1977)

Plasteel Products Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Robert L. Smith, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 17, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Miller, with him Noble R. Zuschlag, and Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, for petitioner.

Benjamin L. Costello, with him Kenneth J. Yablonski, and James N. Diefenderfer, for respondents.

Argued September 16, 1977, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges MENCER and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE MENCER, November 17, 1977:

The difficult question presented by this appeal from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) concerns the meaning of the term "injury" in occupational disease cases.

After 32 years of work as an underground coal miner, Robert L. Smith was employed by Plasteel Products Corporation (Plasteel) as a general maintenance man, electrician helper...

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