Martinez v. Industrial Commission

STEVENS, Presiding Judge.

The question before the Court is whether the petitioner’s psychiatric problems bear a causal relationship to his industrial accident.

Bartolo Martinez, Jr., herein referred to as the petitioner, at the age of 24 years sustained an industrially related injury to his back and leg on 23 January 1968 when he was carrying a long board used as a part of a runway over which Georgia buggies full of wet cement were guided. He missed his step and became partially immersed in wet concrete. He was initially treated on 24 January 1968 by F. S. Kon, D.O., who estimated that the…