Mateo v. Alpha Mechanical Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 5, 2001, which ruled that claimant did not suffer a causally related injury and denied his claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant, a steamfitter, collapsed while hoisting a steel pipe atop a scaffold and thereafter applied for workers’ compensation benefits. Following a hearing, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) found that claimant had established a compensable injury based upon evidence that the stress of claimant’s work activities had triggered his preexisting heart disease and…