Odd Fellow's Home v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

BYER, Judge.

Odd Fellows Home of Pennsylvania and its insurer, PMA Insurance Company (collectively, Odd Fellows) appeal an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) affirming a referee’s grant of total disability benefits to Barbara J. Cook. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

On February 11, 1988, while employed as a nursing assistant at Odd Fellows, Cook and another nursing assistant were transferring a patient to a wheelchair when the patient’s legs “gave out”, and they were forced to place her on the floor and lift her into the chair from that position. Cook felt a pull in…