Shannon v. Southwark Metal Manufacturing Co.

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Monday Shannon (claimant) was employed by the Southwark Metal Manufacturing Co. (employer) as a general laborer. Among the tasks assigned to him was the packing of large metal containers of air conditioner materials into boxes. On May 16, 1973, while he was removing some of these metal containers from a stack, one of them fell and struck the claimant in his left eye. He reported the accident and was taken to a doctor the next day at the employer’s direction.

The examining physician, an internist, recorded a history of blunt trauma to the left eye and noted some physical…