Zionek v. Glen Alden Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

The burden of the complaint of the appellant employer in this workmen’s compensation case is that the controlling finding of the referee was not sufficiently specific to support an award of compensation for disability caused by a hernia.

Claimant, nineteen years of age, was employed by appellant as an inside brakeman at one of its collieries. During the late afternoon of October 3, 1928, several loaded mine cars were derailed, necessitating the use by claimant of an iron instrument approximately three feet long, one-quarter of an inch thick, ten inches wide and…