Ramonett v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

HAIRE, Chief Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the petitioner employee’s anxiety neurosis is a compensable result of his industrially related injury.

Petitioner, David M. Ramonett, had been employed three months as an electrician’s helper underground when he accidentally pricked his finger on some wires, fainted, and went into convulsions. He recovered with seemingly nothing more major than a slightly cut finger and a minor head laceration which he sustained when he fell, but because of the fainting and convulsions he embarked on a series of medical tests. It was feared he might…