Carpenter's Case

David Carpenter (employee), a custodian at an elementary school in the city of Woburn (employer), died at the age of fifty-two while at work and after operating a heavy, commercial snow blower. He experienced “sudden cardiac death” (SCD) due to ventricular arrhythmia.1 The employer’s workers’ compensation insurer, MEA Workers’ Compensation SIG (insurer), appeals from a decision of the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents (board) affirming a decision of an administrative judge awarding burial expenses under G. L. c. 152, § 33, and survivor benefits under G. L. c. 152, §…