Young v. Heekin Canning Co.

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission.

Robert Young was employed at a Blytheville plant where he operated a machine that placed bottoms on metal cans. About three weeks prior to his fatal heart attack, Young suffered pains in his left shoulder and arm. He consulted doctors at the Blytheville Air Force Base who told him he probably had bursitis in that shoulder. On Thursday and Friday immediately preceding his fatal heart attack, he did not go to work and continued to feel bad all through the weekend. Nevertheless, he returned to work…