Porochniak v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Biatt,

Olga Porochniak (claimant) appeals here from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reversed a referee’s grant of compensation benefits.

The claimant worked for the Container Corporation of America for approximately twenty-one years as a packer on an assembly line. On or about June 18;. 1976, she injured tier neck while stretching and twisting in the performance of her job of folding and lifting 50 pound cartons of boxes on a conveyor belt, whereupon she experienced both severe pain in her neck and difficulty in moving her right arm. Although in…