Claim of Brancato v. John W. Cowper Co.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. *753Claimant’s regular work was common labor. Before March 27, 1950, he was suffering from hypertension, high blood pressure and cerebral arteriosclerosis. On March 27th he was working as a pick and shovel laborer digging a trench. The ground was hard; the work was arduous; but it was his usual work. While doing this he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. There is medical opinion that with claimant’s physical background the work he was doing was a contributing cause to the hemorrhage. Where there is such a background of physical…