Lancaster General Hospital v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Judge PELLEGRINI.

Lancaster General Hospital (Employer) appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) granting the claim petition of Janice Weber-Brown (Claimant) in which she claimed a work-related eye injury resulting in blindness in her left eye and a cornea transplant. Finding no error in the Board’s decision, we affirm.

Claimant worked in Employer’s intermediate unit as a licensed practical nurse from 1979 to 1985. Sometime during 1979 or 1980, Claimant was cleaning the tracheotomy of a…