Nemonich v. Pittsburgh Coal Co.

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

This is an appeal by an employer, in a workmen’s compensation case involving a hernia, from an award against it in favor of the claimant. The questions presented on this appeal are whether the right inguinal hernia in this case was such a hernia as was covered by the hernia amendment of June 21, 1939, P. L. 520, and, if so, did claimant comply with the provisions of the amendment as to notice?

Claimant was employed as a loader in the mine of appellant. On January 26, 1944, he was pulling a hook to which was attached a heavy “T” iron rail about fifteen feet long and…