Horner v. Ponderosa Pine Logging

McFADDEN, Justice Pro Tern.

Claimant Harry Horner seeks worker’s compensation benefits for a heart attack he claims occurred on or about July 23, 1981, while he was working as a logger. Claimant’s case was assigned by the Industrial Commission (the Commission) to a referee. Evidence was submitted to the referee by depositions of doctors, documents and claimant’s oral testimony before the referee. The record discloses the following.

At the time of the incident, claimant was 40 years old. He had spent most of his life near the Oregon coast at an elevation of about 1,000 feet. Claimant had been…