Bales v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant appeals from a determination by the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) affirming the referee’s order denying this claim for benefits for a myocardial infarction he sustained on March 3, 1980. Finding the heart attack to be compensable, we reverse and remand.

At the time of the incident, claimant was 55 years old. He was employed by Coos Head Timber Company. For most of the previous six years claimant’s job as “planer feeder” had entailed relatively light work in a seated position turning over pieces of lumber. Two weeks before the incident, claimant was transferred to a position on…