Skyview Cooling Co. v. Indus. Com'n of Ariz.

OPINION

CONTRERAS, Judge.

This is a special action review of an Industrial Commission award for a compensable myocardial infarction. The sole issue is whether the respondent employee (claimant) satisfied his burden of proving that exertion at work substantially contributed to the infarction. After thoroughly reviewing the record, we conclude that sufficient evidence was presented to satisfy claimant’s burden of proof. We therefore affirm the award.

On the early morning of March 15, 1982, the claimant, a farm worker for over thirty years, began work cutting lettuce for the petitioner employer in…