Marzolf Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Flood, J.,

The claimant appeals from a decision of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review holding him ineligible for benefits under section 402(b) (1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS §802(b) (1), on the ground that lie voluntarily left work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.

The claimant had been employed as a heater in a steel mill for thirty-four years. He testified that several months before September 20, 1961, his sixty-fifth birthday, he began to feel unduly fatigued by his duties which involved the operation of grappling hooks weighing from…