Celotex Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson, Jr.,

This is an appeal by petitioner Celotex Corporation (employer) of a decision by the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a decision of a referee granting workmen’s compensation death benefits to three minor claimants. Employer protests the granting of benefits to two of these minor claimants. We affirm.

John Timothy McIntyre (decedent) was crushed to death in a shingle making machine while in the course of his employment on October 31, 1972. In November of 1972, a fatal claim petition was filed by his parents. In March of 1973, another fatal…