Bethenergy Mines, Inc. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

COLINS, President Judge.

Bethenergy Mines (employer) petitions for review of the June 4, 1996 order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) reversing a referee’s termination of George Mucker’s (Mucker) partial disability benefits. We affirm.

As of April 1984, a referee found Mucker to be partially disabled from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis after 37 years of occupational exposure to coal dust. In February 1990, the *872employer filed its petition to modify or terminate Mucker’s benefits, alleging that Muck-er’s condition had improved and that he was no longer disabled. A referee,…