ATLAS ELEC. IND. v. W. C. A. B. (YONTOS).

No. 2986 C.D. 1981.

72 Pa.Commw. 476 (1983)

Atlas Electrical Industries, Petitioner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Joseph Yontos), Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen A. Lenahan, Lenahan & Dempsey, for petitioner.

George W. Teets, for respondent, Joseph Yontos.

Submitted on briefs January 31, 1983, to Judges ROGERS, WILLIAMS, JR. and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, March 9, 1983:

Atlas Electrical Industries appeals from a Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board order affirming a referee's award of benefits to Joseph Yontos under those sections of The Pennsylvania Workmen's Compensation Act governing the occupational disease of silicosis.1 We affirm.

As found by the referee, Atlas employed Mr. Yontos as a foundry worker in three of its plants from 1960 until March 4, 1976...

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