CARPENTERTOWN COAL & COKE CO. v. W.C.A.B.

No. 2425 C.D. 1978.

52 Pa.Commw. 134 (1980)

Carpentertown Coal & Coke Company and Old Republic Companies, Petitioners v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Charles Mohr, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul E. Sutter, Hirsch, Weise & Tillman, for petitioners.

Timothy P. Creany, with him Sandra S. Christianson, Assistant Attorney General, for respondents.

Argued May 7, 1980, before Judges WILKINSON, JR., CRAIG and WILLIAMS, JR., sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, June 10, 1980:

Petitioners, Carpentertown Coal & Coke Company (Carpentertown) and its insurer Old Republic Companies, appeal from the order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (board) which affirmed the referee's award of benefits to claimant Charles Mohr, for partial disability due to coal worker's pneumoconiosis.

Carpentertown employed claimant as a motorman in its coking operation for some three years until he was laid...

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