Arbogast & Bastian, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Arbogast & Bastían, Inc., appeals a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board’s affirmance of a referee’s decision awarding compensation to Charles Bauer. We reverse in part and remand.

On March 2, 1978, Bauer mailed a notarized claim petition to the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, in which he asserted that he had sustained a work-related back injury. It was .received by the Bureau on March 6, 1978, and was circulated to the parties by notice dated March 10,1978.

The referee, on remand,1 found that Bauer had suffered a compensable injury. The referee also…