Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Edgewater Steel Co.

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is an appeal by Edgewater Steel Company, employer, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, insurance carrier, (Appellants) from an opinion and order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) affirming the referee’s award of workmen’s compensation benefits to George H. Miller (Claimant). We affirm.

Claimant was an employee of the Edgewater Steel Company from October 1940 to May 1971. For a majority of those years, he had been classified as a Class “A” Machinist. His work required repeated lifting of metal rings which weighed between forty (40) and sixty…