Turner v. Industrial Commission

JACOBSON, Judge.

This is a “heart case.” The award of the Industrial Commission, which petitioner challenges, denied his claim for compensation.

Petitioner, then age 61, suffered a myocardial infarction while he was working at his customary occupation as a “finish blade” operator at a highway intersection construction project on September 4, 1968.1 Petitioner had been performing this kind of work since 1942. He testified that as far as his work activities were concerned, the day that the attack occurred was “like any other day.” It was not an unusually hot day. Petitioner had suffered a…