Claim of Mitchell v. Nason's Delivery, Inc.

from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 18, 1979. The claimant sustained a heart attack at about 12:00 noon on August 16, 1978, while unloading his employer’s truck. Previously, on that date, he had made pickups and deliveries of cartons of hardware merchandise, weighing from 5 to 100 pounds each, in the same manner as he had done for about 29 years. The unloading required claimant to lift the cartons from inside the truck to its tailgate for placement onto a pallet; the pickups were done in reverse. At the time of his attack the claimant had just unloaded 21 cartons.…