Sporio v. Workmen’s Comp. Appeal Bd. (Songer Constr.), 553 Pa. 44, 717 A.2d 525, 528 (1998). Prior to the Act’s passage, “[i]t was well accepted in Pennsylvania that a common law cause of action could be asserted for negligence of the employer for injuries to an employee resulting from failure to properly maintain the work place.” Greer, 380 A.2d at 1222. “The rule was true before compensation could be had for diseases, and was true as to diseases not covered by the Act after its adoption.” Id. (citations omitted). Despite the WCA’s scope, the common law duty to provide a safe work environment remains, and, in certain circumstances, an employer can face a common law claim for negligence if that duty is breached. See Lord Corp. v. Pollard, 548 Pa. 124, 695 A.2d 767, 769 (1997) (<HOLDING>); see also Boniecke v. McGraw-Edison Co., 485
holding that decedent employees common law negligence claim against employer was not barred when disease was not compensable under the wca or the occupational disease act holding that clause excluding coverage for temporomandibular joint syndrome without a definition for that disease was not plain and clear holding employees negligence claim against his employer was preempted by the lmra holding that time was not compensable where the employer provided but did not require use of a shuttle holding that an employee could not recover damages and medical monitoring costs under the federal employers liability act unless or until he manifested symptoms of a disease