Hinkle v. HJ Heinz Company

Opinion by

Judge Kramer,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, dismissing the appeal of Darious E. Hinkle (Hinkle) from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board (Board) affirming its Beferee’s order of disallowance.

For a period of approximately twenty years prior to the date of the filing of a claim in this case, Hinkle was employed by the H. J. Heinz Company (Heinz) as a bodymaker mechanic, engaged in the work of mailing the body of tin cans. The record clearly shows that the noise in the large room (approximately 500 feet long by 200 feet wide,…