Henderson v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The petitioner in this workmen’s compensation case is a claimant who, having retired as a fireman for the City of Pittsburgh, was working for the Allegheny County Board of Assessment when on February 7, 1979 while moving heavy records he suffered a heart attack.

At the referee’s hearing of the petitioner’s Claim Petition, both the claimant and his employer adduced the testimony, by deposition, of physicians. The claimant’s physician testified that the claimant had suffered an acute myocardial infarction precipitated by his work on the day of the heart attack. The…