L.E. Smith Glass Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

L.E. Smith Glass Company and its workmen's compensation insurer, Northwestern National Insurance *269Company, (Petitioners) petition for review of an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming an award of workmen's compensation benefits to Eugene Hoyman (Claimant). We affirm.

Claimant was employed as a glass gatherer by the petitioner glass company for approximately nine years. As a gatherer, Claimants job entailed continually inserting a six-foot metal putty ball rod into a furnace in front of which he stood, gathering molten glass into the putty…