Dauphine v. City of Minneapolis, Department of Public Welfare

Considered and decided by the court without oral argument.

Relator, widow of the deceased employee, seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board finding that the employee’s death from cancer was not causally related to an employment-related injury and denying her claim for dependency benefits and hospitalization and funeral expenses. We affirm.

On November 26, 1972, the employee fell at work striking his right side on a metal railing. As a result he sustained fractures of the right 8th, 9th, and 10th ribs laterally, a right shoulder sprain and contusions of the right chest and…