Oakes v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) reversing a referee’s grant of benefits to Tillie Jane Oakes (claimant) for an injury which the referee had found compensable under The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.1

The claimant was employed by Woolrich Woolen Mills (employer) as a sewing machine operator from April 1976 until January 18, 1979, when she was unable to continue working due to severe pain in both ■ hands. Following surgery on January 22, 1979, the first of two surgical procedures performed on her hands for carpal…