Wynn v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Clarence Wynn appeals a Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board order affirming a denial of benefits. We affirm.

Wynn, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation employee, sustained a work-related back injury disabling him for a month. He worked for two and one-half years before retiring, contending that this injury forced his retirement. Benefits in excess of the month he was out were denied. The referee concluded that Wynn’s subsequent disability resulted from a pre-existing degenerative back disease not causally related to his injury. The Board affirmed…