Stanton v. Ben Rubin Ajax Cleaners-Dyers

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jb.,

William Stanton (claimant) appeals from a decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County upholding the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board’s (Board) decision reversing the referee’s award of maximum compensation for total disability under the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act (Act).1 We affirm.

For approximately eighteen years, claimant worked in defendant-firm’s laundry and dry cleaning plant where he was exposed to dust, irritants, detergents and noxious fumes. In April 1969, claimant, suffering from emphysema and chronic obstructive lung…