REPUBLIC STEEL CORP. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 1407 C.D. 1979.

51 Pa.Commw. 7 (1980)

Republic Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board, Andrew L. Wojtaszek and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

April 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linton L. Moyer, of Thomson, Rhodes & Grigsby, for petitioner.

Kenneth J. Yablonski, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs, March 14, 1980, to Judges MENCER, CRAIG and WILLIAMS, JR., sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, April 24, 1980:

Republic Steel Corporation (Republic) petitions for review of the decision of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (board) which affirmed the referee's award of benefits for total disability due to coalworker's pneumoconiosis to Andrew L. Wojtaszek (claimant). We affirm the board.

Claimant worked underground in the Pennsylvania bituminous coal mines from 1925 until July, 1974, having been employed since 1953 by Republic...

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