Hebden v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

Appellant, Thomas Hebden, a coal miner for over thirty years, was awarded workmen’s compensation partial disability benefits for an occupationally acquired pulmonary lung disease (coal worker’s pneumoconiosis) by order of a referee dated July 19, 1985. Effective as of August 25, 1983, Appellant was ordered to receive $227.40 per week as compensation. Neither Appellant nor his employer appealed this award. It thereby became a final determination not subject to future attack collaterally or by relitigation. On October 30, 1987, the employer (Bethenergy…