Muse v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

FROEB, Judge.

The issue in this review of an award of the Industrial Commission denying compensation is whether a mental disability, which is the cumulative effect of employment stresses, is a compensable injury under the Workmen’s Compensation Act.

In petitioner’s claim for benefits he stated that he sustained a compensable injury on February 26, 1974. On that date, petitioner, who had been a bus driver for defendant Greyhound Lines West for 31 years, had a brief blackout during a stop on a “run” from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Petitioner did not at that time report the incident to anyone,…