Plumbers Contractors, Inc. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This rather unusual factual situation has been before the referee and the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) twice. In both instances the referee awarded benefits. On the first appeal, the Board set aside the referee’s award of benefits and remanded the case for further consideration of the referee. The basis for the remand was that the referee had found that the injury resulting in death was received “in the course of a fall. ’ ’ In fact, there is no evidence in the record to show whether the decedent fell as a result of a heart attack or whether he…