Romack v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Berger, J.,

This is an appeal by the defendant from an order of the Compensation Board affirming an award of the referee, made by him after a hearing upon a petition filed by the claimant for the reinstatement of a compensation agreement. The claimant, in the course of his employment by the defendant as a contract miner, on Nov. 26, 1923, cut his left wrist with an axe. His average weekly wage at the time was $78.12. The agreement for *192compensation entered into by the parties fixed compensation for total disability at $12 per week, dating from Dec. 7, 1923, and compensation at that rate was…