Claim of Pacer v. Graybar Electric Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed June 29, 1967. Claimant worked for appellant for many years and on December 12, 1960 was employed as a packer. The job involved packaging types of cartons and weights for shipment to purchasers. While lifting a 50-pound carton he was packaging to the scale located upon a table adjacent to his work bench, but about 14 inches higher, he suffered a severe pain in the chest. The pain left him momentarily, but as he again picked up the carton to put it on the truck, he experienced another series of pains in the chest. Shortly…