Bethlehem Mines Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) remanding the case to the referee “to make a determination ... as to when claimant knew or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should have known of his compensable disability from coal-worker’s pneumoconiosis.” We will quash the appeal.

On August 18, 1975, claimant applied for benefits under the provisions of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §1 et seq., alleging that he was totally and permanently disabled…