Loch v. Commonwealth, State Employes' Retirement Board

Opinion by

Judge Barbieri,

Willard L. Loch appeals here a decision and order of the State Employes’ Retirement Board (Board) denying Mr. Loch’s application for a disability annuity.

Mr. Loch was first employed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in 1959 and, at the time of his separation from employment, he worked as a Liquor Store Clerk II. On November 1, 1976, he fell down a flight of stairs and fractured two vertebrae and did not return to work thereafter.1

A hearing was held on Mr. Loch’s claim on June 27, 1980. Mr. Loch, with counsel, appeared and testified with regard to the constant…