Giese v. Safeway Stores

Claimant appeals from a judgment that a coronary occlusion or thrombosis, resulting in a myocardial infarction, suffered on the job was not materially contributed to by claimant’s work activity. The hearing officer had found that the work activity was a material contributing factor, and the Workmen’s Compensation Board had reversed that finding.

On the day claimant suffered the heart attack he started work at his job as a meat cutter at 7 a.m. The attack came about 55 minutes later. His job was to cut sirloin tips from beef hindquarters hanging by hooks set on rollers on an overhead track in a…