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U.S. STEEL CORP. v. W. C. A. B. ET AL.

No. 798 C.D. 1980.

57 Pa.Commw. 201 (1981)

United States Steel Corporation, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board and Rudolph Atz, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

March 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis A. Raimond, for petitioner.

Margaret D. Blough, with her J. Scott Leckie and Kenneth J. Yablonski, for respondents.

Argued February 5, 1981, before Judges MENCER, ROGERS and CRAIG, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, March 2, 1981:

Rudolph Atz, a 66 year old veteran coal miner, lately employed in the mines of U.S. Steel Corporation, was awarded Workmen's Compensation benefits by a referee and the Appeal Board for total disability due to pneumoconiosis, an occupational disease compensable under the Workmen's Compensation Act.1 It is undisputed that the claimant has, by long exposure to coal dust, contracted this form of "black...

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