Blue Ridge Winkler Textiles & CNA Insurance v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

Before us are the cross appeals of Blue Ridge Winkler Textiles (Blue Ridge)1 and Eva Van Horn (claimant) from an order of the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which reinstated the claimant’s benefits for certain periods but suspended them for others.

The complicated history of this matter is as follows. The claimant was employed for Blue Ridge as a napping machine operator and on October 4, 1973 she sustained a work-related injury in the nature of a lumbar-sacral strain. Pursuant to a notice of com*73pensation payable she received benefits until2 a…