Republic Steel Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Republic Steel Corporation has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board which affirmed a referee’s award of benefits to Ludwiek Jesensek for total disability due to coal worker’s pneumoconiosis.

Jesensek was employed in the coal mining industry in western Pennsylvania for 33 years. He left his job with Republic on January 28, 1974 and on March 12, 1975 filed a claim petition under Section 108(q) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §27.1 (q), alleging that on February 15, 1975, he…