Hollingsworth v. Department of Health

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

Claimant- appellant appeals from a decision of the Court of Common Pleas which affirmed the Workmen’s Compensation Board’s action in sustaining the Referee who decided that claimant-appellant was not entitled to compensation under the provisions of The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act, Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 566, as amended, 77 P.S. 1201, et seq. We must affirm.

Claimant- appellant was employed by the Commonwealth from June 9, 1965, until September 16, 1968, at the Henry R. Landis State Hospital as a stationary engineer. Prior to that time and before any…