Chuplis v. Steve Shalamanda Coal Co.

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Schuylkill County dismissing the claimant’s appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board denying her compensation which she claimed under The Pennsylvania Occupational Dis ease Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, as amended, 77 PS §1201 et seq.

A claimant under this act must establish both an occupational disease which “is peculiar to the occupation or industry in which the employe was engaged,” and “compensable disability or death resulting from occupational disease and occurring within four…