Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Paris Neckwear Co.

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

Claimant was employed for approximately ten years as a splitter, a job in which she cut material from rolls of cloth averaging from 200 to 220 pounds apiece. She testified that she stopped work on Friday, April 23, 1971, because of a pain in her back. The following Monday, April 26, 1971, claimant telephoned her employer and told the person who answered the telephone that she could not work because she was sick. Claimant never returned to work.

In August of 1971, after various unsuccessful attempts to treat her back injury, claimant was hospitalized, the injury was…