Claim of Gorkin v. Gorkin's Meat Market

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed August 13, 1968, which found that the employee’s death on September 30, 1966 of a myocardial infarction was causally related to an accidental injury sustained on April 6, 1951. Claimant’s husband was injured while driving his employer’s meat truck when he stopped for a red light and was struck in the rear by another truck causing the load of meat to shift forward and strike him in the back. He saw two doctors that day and evening and in addition to the trauma to the back, obesity and essential hypertension were noted. Decedent…