Hager v. Bethlehem Mines Corp.

Opinion by

Ervin, J.,

This is a workmen’s compensation appeal. The Workmen’s Compensation Board reversed the referee and found in favor of the claimant. The court below affirmed the award.

The board having found in favor of the claimant, we are obliged to review the evidence in the light most favorable to the claimant and he is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable inference deducible therefrom. Santillo v. Pittsburgh Railways Co., 181 Pa. Superior Ct. 266, 124 A. 2d 657.

Percy Hager was employed by the defendant as a shot firer in its coal mine. On Friday, December 8,1950 a fifty-ton rock…