Claim of Ptaszynski v. American Sugar Refining Co.

Appeal by a self-insured employer from an award of death benefits made by the Workmen’s Compensation Board to the widow of a deceased employee. Decedent was employed as a mechanic in the boiler house of the employer’s sugar refinery. On the morning of November 1, 1946, he became ill and was taken to a hospital. At the hospital it was found that he had suffered a coronary occlusion and he died on the 7th of November, 1946. The board found that decedent sustained an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of his employment. Specifically the board found that decedent suffered from a…