Bayuk Cigar Co. v. Hawn

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board granting benefits to the claimant-appelleé.

The claimant was employed by the appellant, Bayuk Cigar Company, as a machinist’s apprentice in November of 1968. On March 18, 1969, at the request of a “floor lady under the the superintendent,” the claimant *47moved several boxes filled with empty glass tubes used for preservation of cigars from an aisle to a nearby wall. As the claimant stacked the last box weighing approximately forty pounds on a level above his head, he felt a sharp pain in…