OAKES v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 589 C.D. 1981.

66 Pa.Commw. 569 (1982)

Tillie Jane Oakes, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Woolrich Woolen Mills, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Rosamilia, Jr., for petitioner.

James M. Horne, McQuaide, Blasko, Schwartz, Fleming & Faulkner, for respondent, Woolrich Woolen Mills.

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


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, May 21, 1982:

This is an appeal from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) reversing a referee's grant of benefits to Tillie Jane Oakes (claimant) for an injury which the referee had found compensable under The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act.1

The claimant was employed by Woolrich Woolen Mills (employer) as a sewing machine operator from April 1976 until January 18, 1979, when...

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