Claim of Pessel v. R. H. Macy & Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed November 18, 1971. The board found that claimant had sustained an industrial accident resulting in myositis of the cervical spine. The board further found that “ claimant worked in an area where the air conditioning ducts expelled cold air that created draughts that struck claimant’s neck activating an underlying arthritic condition and produced symptoms and constitutes an accidental injury arising out of and in the course of employment ”. Appellant urges that this ease lacks that element of suddenness of onset or result…