Long Service Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

Long Service Co., Inc., Petitioner, Employer, appeals here an order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referees award to Robert J. Schell, Claimant, upon setting aside a final receipt, for total disability from injuries suffered by him when he fell a distance of 36 feet during the performance of his duties as a roofer. His injuries resulting from the fall were serious, including a fractured left femur, a fractured left hip, described as a “comminuted intertrochanteric fracture of the left hip” as well as other injuries in the…