Joy Footwear Corp. v. Folgueral

WIGGINTON, Judge.

We affirm a workers’ compensation order in which the deputy commissioner found the claimant’s heart attack compensable and awarded medical benefits in addition to temporary and permanent total disability.

Folgueral is a 57-year-old immigrant with a sixth grade education and limited knowledge of the English language. He worked as a hotel valet, farm hand, chauffeur and ice cream maker in Cuba and Spain before coming to this country and finding work as a lens polisher. Eventually he was employed by Joy Footwear as a box maker, working his way up to the position of cutter’s…