Myers v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Both the claimant and the employer in this workmen’s compensation case have appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board reversing a referee’s decision awarding compensation to the worker.

Marion Myers was employed as a janitor by Firestone Tire & Rubber Company when, on February 16, 1976 while pushing a hand truck loaded with an oil filled drum, she slipped and “pulled something” behind her left knee. She testified that she completed her work that day, but the next morning experienced swelling in her left leg and calf. At the hospital to which her…