Bucyrus-Erie Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Bucyrus-Erie Company appeals from a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming* a referee’s award of benefits to the widow of James R. Holland (claimant) under those sections of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act governing* the occupational disease of silicosis.1 We affirm.

Based on the testimony of three doctors,2 the referee found that the claimant, who had worked for Bucyrus for thirty-four years in the steel foundry, contracted silicosis, a form .of pneumoconiosis, as a result of his occupational exposure to silica dust.3 Furthermore, one of the…