Crucible Steel, Inc. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

Petitioner (employer) appeals an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) af*563firming a referee’s decision awarding total disability benefits to respondent (claimant) pursuant to tbe occupational disease provisions of Tbe Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act (Act), Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. §1 et seq.1 We affirm.

Claimant had worked as a laborer and wharf man for the employer’s steel company since 1950. On June 2, 1976, he was hospitalized due to gastro-intestinal bleeding. Claimant never returned to work. On May 6, 1977,…