A. C. Moyer Co. v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge Craig,
In this appeal by A. O. Moyer, employer, from an award under The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Law1 for disability from the scheduled occupational disease of silicosis,2 the claimant’s disability from that disease is not controverted.
The key question is whether the record contains substantial evidence to support the referee’s findings that the claimant’s employment in this employer’s slag plant from March of 1971 through April of 1975, along with previous employment, was employment in which he was exposed to the hazard of silicosis.
The referee’s findings, numbered…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Chilcote v. LeidySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
- Moyer v. Brockway Clay Co.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- Webster v. Grove City CollegeSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
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