Matrunics v. Ruffsdale Coal Co.

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

This appeal from the order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board involves the narrow but important question of the burden of the employer, on a Petition To Modify an open compensation agreement, where the employee has recovered medically from a 100% to a 50% disability, to show that work is available. The Referee found that the claimant had made a partial recovery.

“He can do light work of a general nature if the job involves only moderate walking and carrying of objects or where the work involves a handing out of supplies from a storeroom. He could be an elevator…