obvious causal connection exists when claimant experiences severe pain and feelings of paralysis after attempting to unload baking equipment from a truck
How later courts described this case
- obvious causal connection exists when claimant experiences severe pain and feelings of paralysis after attempting to unload baking equipment from a truck
- medical testimony not required where the relationship between the work incident and injury is obvious
- pain in back while attempting to unload a stack of bakery pans from a truck
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
EAGEN, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent.
An award of workmen’s compensation may not be made where there is no obvious causal connection between the work incident and the injury unless causation is established by unequivocal medical testimony. Munns v. Easthome Furniture Industries, Inc., 193 Pa.Super. 61 , 164 A.2d 30 (1960); Montgomery Mills Co. v. Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board, 26 Pa.Cmwlth. 471 , 364 A.2d 508 (1976); Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board v. Czepurnyj, 20 Pa.Cmwlth. 305 , 340 A.2d 915 (1975).
The circumstances surrounding the incident do not establish an obvious causal relationship between the work inci *425 dent and the injury. It was, therefore, incumbent upon claimant to establish the causal connection by unequivocal medical testimony. This he failed to do although he claims to have been treated by an orthopedic surgeon for months.