Gilberton Coal Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Gilberton Coal Company appeals a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming a referee’s decision awarding the claimant-widow, Jule Gilfert, and her daughter death benefits.

Gilfert’s husband, Charles, a former miner for Gilberton, died from a ruptured colon. Gilfert filed a fatal claim petition alleging that death was the result of an occupational disease, anthracosilicosis, which had totally disabled her husband. During the hearings on the petition, the decedent’s treating physician, Dr. Benjamin Platt, testified that anthracosilicosis was a…