Krug v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Department of Public Welfare which denied Appellant disability benefits under the Act of December 8, 1959, P. L. 1718, No. 534, §1, as amended, 61 P.S. §951.

The Appellant Ola Mae Krug was employed at the Ebensburg State School and Hospital, a facility operated under the direction of the Department of Public Welfare, whose primary concern is the care of retarded children. She was employed as a “Child Care Aide II.”

On July 26, 1971, as Appellant was helping a patient walk to the dining room, the patient threw herself at…