Shashura v. Vesta Coal Co.

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

During the week following August 12, 1935, Artem Shashura, claimant-appellant herein, lost the vision of his left eye through the acute development therein of a gonococcic infection. Contending that the infection was attributable to an “injury by an accident” sustained that day in the course of his employment as a loader in one of the coal mines of the defendant employer, within the meaning of Section 301 of our Workmen’s Compensation Act of June 2, 1915, P. L. 736, 77 PS §§411, 431, claimant filed his claim petition in which he thus described the alleged accident:…