Claim of Cook v. Water Tunnel Contractors

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 22, 1978, as amended by a decision filed August 9, 1979. On November 22, 1974, claimant, an electrician engaged in tunnel construction necessitating the lifting of large, extremely heavy wire cables, suffered chest pains and numbness in his extremities. He finished the day’s work explaining to a coemployee that he was suffering from indigestion. The following day, Saturday, while working at home he again experienced tightness in his chest. That evening he returned home early from a dance because he felt ill. The next day,…