Queen v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

Claimant appeals a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board that reversed a hearings referee’s ruling that claimant’s heart problems were compensably related to his work activity as a woods foreman. The issue is whether claimant has proved by a preponderance of the evidence that his work activity was a major contributing cause of his heart condition. We affirm.

Claimant was age 55 at the onset of his disability. He was employed as a foreman for a logging operation. During the summer of 1978, he had experienced episodes of numbness in his left arm and shortness of breath at work. On August 7…