S & H Hot Spot & Westmoreland Casualty Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Mencer,

S & H Hot Spot (employer) and its workmen’s compensation insurance carrier have appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s award of benefits to James Trainer (claimant). We affirm.

Claimant was employed as a clerk and handyman in the employer’s grocery store and delicatessen. At approximately 8 p.m. on November 13, 1969, claimant discovered that the delicatessen’s dumbwaiter was broken. He was instructed by his supervisor to walk to his apartment, about six blocks away, get his tools, and return the same evening to fix…