Kitchen v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Cbaig,

Donald Kitchen appeals from a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming a referee’s dismissal of Mr. Kitchen’s claim petition under section 301(c) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.1 We affirm.

On May 26, 1978, Mr. Kitchen, a craneman for Mesta Machine Company, filed a claim petition alleging disability because of pulmonary fibrosis contracted from exposure to silica in the company’s foundry. The referee dismissed that 1978 claim petition on the basis of medical testimony that Mr. Kitchen was not suffering from silicosis, and that any impairment of…