Reffner v. Consolidation Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The only controverted question in this workmen’s compensation case is whether the disability from which the claimant was suffering at the date of the award resulted from such “violence to the physical structure of [his] body,” on April 10, 1933, as amounted to an “injury by an accident,” within the contemplation of Section 301 of our Workmen’s Compensation Law of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736. The referee awarded compensation for total disability upon the ground that a sudden “twist” by claimant of his body, in the course of his employment in one of the mines of the…