PORT AUTH. OF ALLEG. CO. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 531 C.D. 1981.

66 Pa.Commw. 393 (1982)

Port Authority of Allegheny County, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Michael V. D'Agostino, Deceased, by Nellie, His Widow, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

May 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey M. Johnston, Ruffin, Hazlett, Snyder, Brown & Stabile, for petitioner.

Edwin H. Beachler, with him William R. Caroselli, McArdle, Caroselli, Spagnolli & Beachler, for respondent, Nellie D'Agostino.

Argued February 3, 1982, before President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges BLATT and MacPHAIL, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE CRUMLISH, JR., May 3, 1982:

Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAT) appeals a Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board order1 awarding death benefits2 to the wife of Michael D'Agostino. We affirm.

D'Agostino, a bus driver for PAT, sustained a fatal heart attack while shoveling foot-deep snow around his vehicle in PAT's employee lot.

To be compensable under Section 301...

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