Opinion
April 15, 1929.
May 13, 1929.
Workmen's compensation — Injuries — Exposure to wet and cold — Pneumonia.
Injury following an extraordinary exposure to wet and cold, suffered in the course of employment, may be compensable under the workmen's compensation statutes, on the same principle as a prostration resulting from heat; so may death from pneumonia caused by an injury or unusual exposure.
Before MOSCHZISKER, C. J., FRAZER, WALLING, SIMPSON, KEPHART, SADLER and SCHAFFER, JJ.
Appeal, No. 78, Jan. T., 1929, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Columbia Co., Sept. T., 1927, No. 343, affirming decision of workmen's compensation board allowing claim, in case of Stesia Broch v. Lehigh Valley Coal Company. Affirmed.
Appeal from decision of workmen's compensation board awarding compensation. Before EVANS, P. J.
The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts.
Decision affirmed. Defendant appealed.
Error assigned, inter alia, was judgment, quoting record.
S.W. Rhoads, with him P. F. O'Neill, F. W. Wheaton and E. J. Flynn, for appellant.
Roger J. Dever, for appellee.
Argued April 15, 1929.
Claimant's husband died of pneumonia resulting from unusual exposure during the course of his employment in defendant's mine. In Jones v. Phila. Reading Coal Iron Co., 285 Pa. 317, 320, we held that, "Injury following an extraordinary exposure to wet and cold, suffered in the course of employment, may be compensable under the workmen's compensation statutes, on the same principle as a prostration resulting from heat . . . . . .; so may death from pneumonia caused by an injury or unusual . . . . . . exposure." The court below properly decided that the present case was ruled by that decision.
The judgment is affirmed.