Claim of Ball v. Benjamin Electric Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 22, 1980. The board, reversing an Administrative Law Judge, determined that the 49-year-old claimant sustained an acute myocardial infarction on September 23, 1977, as the result of increased work effort and emotional pressures in his job as a supervisor with an electrical contracting firm. His *594doctor testified that the attack “was directly due to the mental and physical strain to which he had been subjected for preceding days or weeks as a result of increased duties required on his job.” Poor economic conditions in the…