Yanish v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Colins,

Steve Yanish (petitioner) appeals from an order of the Pennsylvania Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) reversing a referees decision to award disability benefits. The referee found that petitioner had become permanently disabled as a result of coal workers pneumoconiosis to the extent that he could no longer work as a motorman in the coal mine because of his total and cumulative exposure to coal dust during forty-one years of employment in the coal mining industry.

Petitioner retired at age sixty-two due to shortness of breath. Pursuant to Section 108 of The…