Capaldi v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (City of Philadelphia)

OPINION BY

PRESIDENT JUDGE LEAVITT

Eugene Capaldi (Claimant) petitions for review of an adjudication of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Board) denying him compensation benefits for a squamous cell carcinoma on his right vocal cord. In doing so, the Board affirmed the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) and held that Claimant, a retired firefighter, did not prove that his cancer is a type caused by exposure to International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Group 1 carcinogens and, thus, an occupational disease under Section 108(r) of the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act),…