McQueen v. General Motors Corp.

Defendant appeals by leave granted from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board granting plaintiff an open-benefit award of $161 per week. We reverse.

Plaintiff was first employed by defendant on June 25, 1953. Over the next seventeen years, he experienced no cardiac trouble or chest pains.

In June, 1970, plaintiff’s job was to operate four grinder machines. This required him to reach up to conveyor belts to receive parts, two at a time, and then place the parts into sets of grinding machines. This process was repeated approximately once every sixty seconds. Approximately twenty…