Bethlehem Steel Co. v. Industrial Commission

This cause is heard on a writ of error issued to the circuit court of Cook County to review a judgment confirming an award of workmen’s compensation entered by the Industrial Commission in favor of Sadie B. Hall, herein called plaintiff, for the death of her husband while in the employ of the Bethlehem Steel Company, referred to herein as defendant.

The sole inquiry in the cause is whether the collapse and death of an employee from coronary thrombosis while engaged in his regular duties qf carrying and heating rivets, and arranging kegs of rivets beside the furnaces, constituted accidental…