Swank Refractories & Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jb.,

Appellants appeal an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referee’s award of total disability benefits to the claimant pursuant to Section 108 (k) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §27.1(k). We affirm.

Claimant was employed by appellant-employer for approximately 46 years as a green brick wheeler, whose duties included placing brick into a dry press, taking the brick into kilns, scraping excess sand off the brick and stacking the brick inside the kilns. On…