Rakocy v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

A Workmens Compensation Appeal Board (Board) order upheld a referees decision to deny Thomas M. Rakocy specific loss benefits (right eye).1 We affirm.2

Rakocy, a laborer for M. Gordon & Sons, Inc., was injured when debris from a sandblasting hose entered his right eye. Thereafter, he developed ocular herpes resulting in scarring of the eye.

Rakocy contends on appeal that his blurred vision—the result of sunlight diffusing through the scars in his eye—is undetectable in an examination under normal doctors office conditions. Thus, he asserts that *627the…