Groncki v. Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal Co.

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation case. The claimant has appealed from an order of the County Court of Allegheny County, dated February 6, 1964, which affirmed an order of the Board directing the employer to pay compensation for a period of one hundred and eighty weeks for the specific loss of claimant’s lower right leg, plus twenty-five weeks healing period. It will be necessary to recite the factual and procedural situation in some detail.

Walter I. Groncki was employed as a trackman by the Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal Company. On February 18, 1955, he was struck by falling…