Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Bethlehem Steel Corporation (employer) appeals from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to grant benefits to Sam N. Young (claimant). We likewise affirm.

The claimant was employed as a door machine operator, a job which required him to operate a machine which removed the doors on the batteries of the coke ovens at his employer’s plant and which also required him to clean those doors by using a hammer and bar. On the morning of March 17,1973, while in the course of his employment, the claimant began to experience pain…