McGraw Edison Power Systems v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

NARICK, Senior Judge.

Before us is an appeal by McGraw-Edison Power Systems (Employer) from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s award of total disability benefits to Joseph Kuzior (Claimant) resulting from mixed dust pneumoconiosis and its sequelae he contracted during his various coal mine and steel mill employments in Pennsylvania.

Claimant was employed as a craneman at McGraw-Edison from March 16, 1970, to January 27, 1984, when he retired. Prior to 1970 he worked approximately twenty-nine years as a craneman in a steel mill, and approximately…