Claim of Lucas v. Peter Kiewit Sons Co.

Appeal from decisions of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 28, 1978 and September 22, 1978, holding that decedent Stanley Lucas sustained a compensable injury resulting in his death from generalized pancreatitis, secondary to a ruptured abscess of his pancreas. Decedent worked for the employer as an electrician. During the night of January 22 to 23, 1975, he was working on a sewer construction in a tunnel "14 feet around” pulling and shoving a "440 cable” on a reel 64 inches each time, and, while standing on a ladder, putting plastic wraps around the cable. About 5:00 a.m. on…