Claim of Maynard v. Industrial Welding Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 10, 1976, as amended by decision filed August 11, 1977. Claimant suffered a compensable myocardial infarction on April 25, 1972. He returned to work in January, 1973 under doctor’s orders to refrain from heavy exertion. The demands of work gradually increased through August of 1973, at which time he was called on to regularly do the same heavy lifting he had done prior to the infarction of April, 1972. Between January and August of 1973, claimant experienced occasional chest pains, both while at work and at home. The…