Allen v. Patterson-Emerson-Comstock, Inc.

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal in a workmen’s compensation case. Thomas W. Allen, the deceased husband of the claimant, was employed by the defendant company at the mill of the Pittsburgh Steel Company in Monessen, Pa. On October 19, 1951 while ascending a flight of stairs, he turned and fell, face down, to the concrete floor be low. Before falling he had taken two steps np the stairway. He died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

The referee and the board disallowed compensation and the County Court of Allegheny County affirmed the disallowance by holding that the claim…