Powichka v. Glen Alden Coal Co.

Pinola, J.,

In this case defendants have filed exceptions to the affirmance by the Workmen’s Compensation Board of a referee’s award under the Occupational Disease Act.

While they are numerous and affect practically all the findings and conclusions made by the referee and affirmed by the board, at argument defendants abandoned all but one.

It is admitted that claimant was permanently and totally disabled solely by anthraco-silicosis. The sole question remaining is whether claimant established that he had been exposed to a silica hazard for four years out of the last eight years of his…