St. Joe Minerals Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

St. Joe Minerals Corporation appeals a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming the ref*326eree’s award of total disability benefits to Ivan J. Vincenzini. We affirm.

Vincenzini, a utility man in St. Joe’s furnace department since 1950, left work for health reasons on November 4,1976. Subsequently, he was diagnosed as having mixed dust pneumoconiosis. Vincenzini applied for disability benefits under Section 108 (n) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.1

The referee found that the mixed dust pneumoconiosis totally disabled Vincenzini, that…