Fleming v. Sheffield Steel Corp.

OPINION

GOODMAN, Judge.

This is a review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court denying the claimants’ request to be awarded pecuniary loss benefits in addition to those benefits previously awarded to them as actual dependents of the deceased worker. Based upon our review of the record and applicable law, we sustain the order.

I

On March 19, 1994, thirty-three-year-old David Fleming was “[wjorldng at a steel furnace” during the course of his employment as a “third helper” at Sheffield Steel Corporation, when “something exploded inside of furnace, causing molten steel to splash out & hit…