Superior Tube Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

CRUMLISH, Jr., President Judge.

Superior Tube Company (Superior) appeals a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming the referee’s decision to grant Mary Unger temporary total disability benefits. We affirm.

During her five years as a bench press operator for Superior Tube, Unger was continuously exposed to the industrial chemical solvent trichlorethylene (TCE).1 In 1985, Unger informed her personnel director that her physician had diagnosed cirrhosis as a result of TCE exposure and advised her to wear a respirator mask to avoid further liver damage. Because this arrangement was…