Consolidation Coal Co. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Consolidation Coal Company has brought this appeal from an award of workmen’s compensation benefits by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (board) to claimant William R. Mountain for total disability resulting from coal miner’s pneumoconiosis.

The only issue presented to us is whether claimant complied with Section 311 of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended (Act), 77 P.S. §631, which, as applicable to occupational disease claims, requires that an employee notify his employer of his disability within 120 days of the date…