Blackwood Turf & Rockwood Insurance v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

The very narrow issue in this case is whether it falls within the category of those workmen’s compensation cases where the causal relationship between claimant’s disability and the alleged work related injury is so obvious that it is not necessary to have medical evidence to support the causation. Morgan v. Giant Markets, Inc., 483 Pa. 421, 397 A.2d 415 (1979); Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board v. Bethlehem Mines Corp., 22 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 437, 349 A.2d 529 (1975).

The disability here is the loss of hearing in the left ear. Claimant had lost the hearing in…