ZALENSKI v. JARKA CORP. OF PHILA

Workmen's Compensation Board — Injury — Award — Appeal.

In an appeal from an award of the Workmen's Compensation Board, the evidence disclosed that the claimant injured his back in two accidents within a period of a month. In the first accident he was hit by a falling cement bag, and in the second he fell on a slippery board. During the period between the accidents the claimant worked, but suffered pain. The medical testimony was to the effect that the injury complained of was due to the first accident, and that the second accident did not aggravate the injury or produce an incapacity which otherwise would not have existed. In such case the award of compensation for injuries sustained in the first accident will be affirmed.

Argued October 3, 1929.