Rag (Cyprus) Emerald Resources, LP v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

*834OPINION BY

Judge McGINLEY.

RAG (Cyprus) Emerald Resources, LP (Employer) petitions for review from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that affirmed the Workers’ Compensation Judge’s (WCJ) grant of Ronald A. Hopton’s (Claimant) claim petition.1

Claimant worked as a beltman in the Cyprus Emerald Mine (Mine). On or about April 12, 1996, Claimant petitioned for compensation benefits and alleged that he “was subject [sic] to harassing comments of a homosexual nature by the employees [sic] mine foreman, Dominic Rossi, on 3 occassions [sic] from July 6 to 13, 1994.” Claim…