Stone Container Corp. v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Stone Container Corporation (Stone) has appealed from an order of the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board affirming a referee’s award of benefits and attorney’s fees to one of its former employees, Ramon Rodil.

Mr. Rodil was employed by Stone as a machine operator. On April 16, 1974, while feeding thirty-five pound packages of cardboard sheets into a machine, he bent to catch some falling sheets and felt a sharp, snapping pain in his back. He reported the incident to his supervisor and worked in pain for a week before consulting his physician, Dr. Anthony W. Salem. Mr.…