Bethlehem Mines Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

Petitioner appeals an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) setting aside a referee’s disallowance of claimant’s petition and remanding for the appointment of an impartial physician and the making of more specific findings of fact.1 We reverse.

Claimant was last employed as a coal miner on January 2, 1976, having worked for various coal companies in this state for approximately 40 years. Claimant’s petition alleged total and permanent disability from anthraco-silicosis and/or coal worker’s pneumoconiosis as of February 20, 1976.2

A referee found…