Pennsylvania fire chief's widow gets court's OK to keep fighting for benefits over his cancer death

  • Source: PennLIve
  • Published: 03/10/2017 12:00 AM

The widow of a volunteer fire chief has won another shot at securing workers compensation benefits on a claim that her husband contracted fatal cancer from the smoke and diesel fumes he inhaled during decades on duty. Cheryl Steele got that second chance Wednesday when a state Commonwealth Court panel ordered the state Workers Compensation Appeals Board to reconsider its refusal to award her benefits for the August 2011 death of her husband, Roy. Cheryl Steele claimed her husband contracted the stage 4 lung cancer that killed him during his service as a chief, and finally a captain with the Imperial Volunteer Fire Department in Allegheny County.



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