Ziegler v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Barry,

This appeal results from an order of the Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board (Board) which affirmed a referees decision denying benefits to the claimant, David Ziegler. The employer, Oxford Mills, is the respondent in the present case.

As found by the referee, claimant alleged an injury to his back and neck at work when he attempted to close with a jerking motion a locked lever on a winding spool of fiberglass yarn coating machine. This movement, claimant has maintained, caused “an immediate sharp shocklike pain from his neck down his right arm.” As also found by the…