Fashion Hosiery Shops v. Commonwealth, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal by employer Fashion Hosiery Shops (Fashion) from an "order of the Workmen’s *467Compensation Appeal Board (Board) that affirmed a referee’s award of total disability compensation to claimant Matilda Kurta. The central issue is whether the place and occasion of the claimant’s injury make it compensable under the “premises” provisions of Section 301(c) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.1

Claimant Kurta was employed as manager and salesperson at Fashion’s hosiery and lingerie shop on Fifth Avenue in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The shop was…