Ellwood Quality Steel Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

COLINS, Judge.

Ellwood Quality Steel Company (Ell-wood) and its workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Royal & Sun Alliance, petition for review of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) order affirming a workers’ compensation judge’s grant of David Harper’s claim petition seeking specific loss benefits under Sec*360tion 306(c)(22) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act)1 for permanent disfigurement of his neck.

Harper’s claim petition alleged that on June 9, 1997 while he was working as a furnace operator for Ellwood, as he was removing a temperature probe from liquid steel a piece of hot…