Scott v. C. E. Powell Coal Co.

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• explaining that, when an employee sustains injuries that bring him within the provisions of the WCA, such provisions determine the amount he may be compensated and, as such, provide the exclusive remedy even if no compensation is available
• exclusivity provision denied recovery against an employer for injury resulting in loss of taste and smell
• claimant would have been entitled to compensation, on the basis of permanent partial disability, for his employment-related permanent loss of senses of taste and smell but-for the Pennsylvania Act’s express preclusion of such award where actual earnings are as great as before the accident

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