Workers’ Compensation • Occupational Disease • Presumptions • Firefighters
Capaldi v. Worker’s Comp. Appeal Bd., PICS Case No. 17-0061 (Pa. Commw. Jan. 9, 2017) Leavitt, P. J. (21 pages).
Workers’ compensation appeal board properly rejected firefighter’s claim that his squamous cell carcinoma was a work injury because his medical evidence did not show that his illness was a type of cancer caused by IARC Group 1 carcinogens and thus, it was not an occupational disease under §108(r), the presumption of compensability was not available to claimant and he was unable to prove compensability under §108(n) because his medical evidence was rejected. Affirmed.
