Schuster v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

On October 5, 1973, Richard Schuster was engaged in the mill of his employer, Lee Tire and Rubber Company. Mr. Schuster, hired by Lee Tire as a white-collar office worker, had -been sent into the mill along with other office workers in order to prevent a cessation in tire production due to an ongoing labor dispute with the employer’s unionized employee®. In his attempt to carry out the unaccustomed duties in the mill, which involved the manipulation of sheets and rolls of rubber weighing in excess of two hundred pounds and the division of these rolls from the machine of…