Marcks v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

Harold C. Marcks (Claimant) petitions for review of the order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which denied his claim petition -filed under Section 108(o) of the Occupational Disease provisions of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §27.1(o), alleging disability from emphysema caused by thirty-three years of fire fighting. We reverse.

Claimant was employed by the City of Allentown (Employer) as a fire fighter from 1942 until his retirement on a disability pension in 1975. On…