Globe MacHine v. Yock

Globe Machine seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order which found that claimant’s disabling psychological breakdown and alcohol abuse are the results of stress that he encountered while working for Globe and one of its subsidiaries. We affirm.

Claimant, who was born in 1930, was an engineer in the wood products industry for almost 30 years. In 1978, he left his employer of 20 years to become the part-owner of a corporation which operated a lumber mill in California. The recession began soon afterwards, and the mill was one of the early casualties; the corporation went bankrupt in…