General Electric Corp. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

DOYLE, Judge.

This is an appeal by General Electric Corp. (G.E.) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming a referee’s decision to award benefits to Stanley Kosinski (Claimant) for an occupational disease as defined under Section 108(n) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act), 77 P.S. § 27.1(n).1

The referee found that Claimant had spent thirty years of his life, from 1952 to 1982, as an employee of G.E., and the majority of that time was spent as an arc welder. Previous to that, he had been a coal miner.2 During his time as a miner and as an arc…