Slomiak v. Ceder Grove Cemetery

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 19, 1979, and amended by a decision filed June 28, 1979. Claimant was employed as a seasonal laborer at Ceder Grove Cemetery. He testified that on October 28, 1976 at about 9:30 A.M., he sustained severe chest and radiating arm pains after lifting a lawn mower in an area where he was working alone. After informing two fellow workers, he left his employment and was sent to the hospital by his doctor. The diagnosis was acute myocardial infarction. While in the hospital, he asked a colleague to tell his employer he was…