Central Lumber Co. v. Wood

The judgment of the trial court affirmed an award by the Workmen’s Compensation Board which compensated Everett Wood for disability due to heat exhaustion induced by the natural heat of the day.

On two occasions this Court has stated that a heat stroke produced by the natural heat of the day was not a traumatic injury, but rather a disease and therefore not com-pensable under our statute. Smith v. Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co., 211 Ky. 454, 277 S.W. 806; Mellon v. Ashland Coca Cola Bottling Co., 302 Ky. 176, 194 S.W.2d 171. The Smith case, which was the sole authority relied upon in the Mellon…