Stasel v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The question presented on this appeal is whether an employee is entitled to benefits under our Workmen’s Compensation Act, KRS 342.001 et seq., for injuries received in the course of his employment from a fall against a hot stove, or upon hot sand, during a fainting spell which was subsequently diagnosed as an epileptic seizure. The compensation board held the injury noncompensable, and the circuit court affirmed its finding.

The accident of which the appellant complains occurred on October 4, 1950, the first day of his second employment with the appellee. The appellant…