Corrento v. Ventresca

Opinion by

Stadtfeld, J.,

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Philadelphia County, affirming an award of compensation to the widow of Gerardo Corrento, made by the referee and affirmed by the board.

The decedent, Gerardo Corrento, was employed by the defendant, Pacifico Ventresca, on a sewer construction project in the city of Philadelphia on August 11, 1939. In the course of the excavation wtork being performed that morning, four dynamite charges were set off. Between eight and fifteen minutes following the last blast, a sewer wall, which had previously…