PMA Insurance Group v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

DOYLE,’Judge.

The PMA Insurance Group and the McClure Company (collectively referred to as PMA) appeal an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, which affirmed a referee’s decision dismissing PMA’s Petition for Review of a Notice of Compensation Payable.

Richard J. Kelley (Decedent), while in the employ of the McClure Company, was killed when he fell off a ladder into a bin of sand where he was asphyxiated. The accident occurred on the premises of the Pennsy Supply Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Thereafter, PMA issued a notice of compensation payable, and began paying benefits to…