Good Shepherd Workshop v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Good Shepherd Workshop, the employer, and its workers’ compensation insurer appeal from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board that affirmed a decision of a referee determining that claimant Mary Caffrey was entitled to workers’ compensation benefits in connection with an injury that she sustained at her place of employment.

In view of our scope of review,1 we may state the issues as follows: (1) whether the board committed error of law by supplying on its own a necessary finding of fact not made by the referee, in order to affirm the referee’s conclusion…