Yocom v. Yates

LESTER, Judge.

This is a workmen’s compensation case in which the Special Fund appeals from a judgment sustaining a final order of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding claimant total and permanent benefits as a result of pneumoconiosis/silicosis.

Appellant, Hershel Yates, is a thirty-one year old coal miner who has been engaged as such all of his industrial life. He has a sixth grade education and his dependents consist of his wife and five young children. On July 28, 1976, Yates filed his application for adjustment of claim alleging that he had become affected with the dust inhalation…