Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board of the Commonwealth v. Brockway Glass Co.

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

While at work on May 5, 1972, Thelma A. Sampson, the claimant, suffered a laceration of the palm of her left hand. As a result of her injury, the claimant’s employer, Brockway Glass Company, Inc. #7, (Brock-way) entered into an agreement and paid compensation to the claimant for total disability pursuant to Section 306(a) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act,1 77 P. S. §511. On June 5, 1973, Brockway filed a modification petition alleging that the claimant’s disability had resolved itself into no more than a specific loss of use of two fingers on the…