Thibeault's Case

The employee was an attendant nurse at a State institution, where there was a boys’ infirmary and also a girls’ infirmary. A single member of the Industrial Accident Board found that the employee “sustained a personal injury arising out of and in the course of her employment, while doing heavy lifting [in the girls’ infirmary] which culminated in a heart attack, on or about August 31, 1958.” He also found that further attacks took place on January 4 and June 2, 1959, and that the employee was totally incapacitated from September 1 to December 2, 1958, and from January 5 to November 23, 1959.…