Shelestak v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

ORDER

NOW, March 7, 1990, it is ordered that the opinion filed January 2, 1990 shall be designated OPINION rather than MEMORANDUM OPINION and that it shall be reported.

CRAIG, Judge.

Steve Shelestak appeals from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming a referee’s denial of benefits under section 301(c) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, Act of June 2, 1915, P.L. 736, as amended, 77 P.S. § 411(1).

The issue in this case is whether substantial evidence supports the referee’s findings that exposure to coal dust at Bethany Mines neither caused nor aggravated…