Shanley v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal by claimant Edward A. Shanley from a denial of workmen’s compensation benefits by the referee and the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board. We affirm.

Claimant alleges disability due to pneumoconiosis and objects to referee’s finding of fact number 5:

5. Based upon sufficient, competent and credible medical evidence of record in this case from Dr. Thomas J. Antos, who examined claimant in behalf of the defendant-employer, your Referee finds as a fact that claimant is not totally and permanently disabled from coal workers’ pneumoconiosis,…