Empire Steel Castings, Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

FLAHERTY, Judge.

Empire Steel Castings, Inc. (Employer) petitions for review from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed an order of the Workers’ Compensation Judge WCJ) that granted Elpidio Cruceta’s (Claimant) claim petition. We affirm.

The WCJ made the following relevant findings of fact (F.F.):

1. Claimant filed a claim petition on October 11, 1996, alleging that he had become temporarily disabled from his job as a grinder from Empire Steel due to a work-related neck injury involving herniated discs at C5, C6 and C7 incurred on a repetitive basis from April…