Case ID: pa-super_93/html/0224-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Linn, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rocco v. Pennsylvania Coal Company, Appellant.
    
      Workmen’s Compensation — Loss of eye — Total disability — Sections 306-a and 306-c.
    
    Compensation, payments under sections 306-a and 306-c of the Workmen’s Compensation Act, accrue concurrently subject to the maximum specified in the Act.
    Where a claimant sustains various injuries including the loss of an eye, and is paid for total disability for 123 weeks under section 306-a, he is entitled only to additional compensation for 2 weeks, the balance of the 125 weeks’ disability period, provided by section 306-c for the loss of an eye.
    Argued March 6, 1928.
    Appeal No. 41, February T., 1928, by defendant from order of O. P., Lackawanna County, October T., 1927, No. 1652, in the case of Gerardo Rocco v. Pennsylvania Coal Company.
    Before Henderson, Keller., Linn, Gawthrop and Cunningham, JJ.
    Reversed.
    Appeal from award of Workmen’s Compensation Board. Before Watson, J.
    The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court.
    The court sustained the award. Defendant appealed.
    
      Error assigned, was the order of the court.
    
      Herbert F. Harris, and with him H. J. Connolly, for appellant.
    
      
      Vandling D. Rose, and with him George W. Ellis, for appellee.
    April 16, 1928:
   Opinion by

Linn, J.,

Claimant was injured October 11, 1924; his face was cut, the sight of an eye was lost, -and a leg broken. For total disability under section 306-a he received the maximum weekly compensation of $12 for 123 weeks eliding December 3, 1926, when total disability ceased. He obtained an award of 125 weeks additional on the theory that he was entitled under 306-c to that compensation for the disability resulting from the loss of his eye, in addition to what he received during the period of total disability.

The appeal is ruled by Olinsky v. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. this day decided, and cases cited in that opinion. The disability period of 125 weeks for which compensation under 306-c was awarded for the loss of one eye began July 30th as provided in section 306-d. As claimant has received total disability compensation for 123 of tho'se weeks, he is entitled only to additional compensation for 2 weeks — the balance of the 125 week disability period provided for the loss of an eye.

The judgment is reversed and the record is remitted with instructions for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.