Joy Mining MacHinery Co. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION BY

Senior Judge FRIEDMAN.

Joy Mining Machinery Company (Employer) petitions this court for review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB), dated February 25, 2010, which affirmed the order of a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) granting the claim petition filed by Charles Zerres (Claimant). We affirm.

Claimant has worked for Employer for over forty years, most of them as a machine operator. Claimant began wearing hearing muffs in the 1970s, but, in some of the jobs he did for Employer, he could still hear the noise through the muffs. Claimant continues to wear…