Tortorice v. Capital Brickwork Construction, Inc.

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from the .order, of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County by the claimant-appellant, Samuel Tortorice, that, affirmed an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board directing the claimant to submit to shock therapy under pain of forfeiture of benefits under Section 806(F) of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of Pennsylvania, 77 P.S. §531.

The claimant on February 7, 1962 was carrying a bucket of gasoline and tripped so that the gasoline splashed over most of his body and, because of his proximity to an open flame, he became a human torch. *250The…