Walker v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (board) reversing a referee and denying benefits to Dorothy M. Walker (claimant).

On November 18, 1971 Howard N. Walker (decedent), the claimant’s husband, was employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways1 as a maintenance foreman whose primary duties were to place the other employes at work and to keep their time sheets. On the morning of that date he reported for work at a tool shed and then proceeded to Legislative Route 30031 in Greene County where his maintenance crew of three men was…