Bethlehem Steel Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The petitioner, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, seeks review of an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which upheld a referee’s decision granting a claim for benefits filed by Mrs. Evelyn P. Tompkins for the death of her husband Jack Keith Tompkins. The referee found inter alia:

[t]hat on August 20, 1976, while in the course of his employment, the decedent was struck by a ball of wire on his side, aggravating, causing and precipitating a rent and tear and blow out of the pre-existing abdominal aortic aneurysm contributing to and resulting in the…