O'Donnell's Case
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Certification to the Superior Court, under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board and papers in connection therewith, affirming and adopting findings of a single member of the board, to whom had been referred a claim of the widow of John J. O’Donnell, an employee of C. H. Cronin, that O’Donnell’s death was caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries resulting from assimilation of lead which occurred during his…
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Certification to the Superior Court, under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act, of a decision of the Industrial Accident Board and papers in connection therewith, affirming and adopting findings of a single member of the board, to whom had been referred a claim of the widow of John J. O’Donnell, an employee of C. H. Cronin, that O’Donnell’s death was caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries resulting from assimilation of lead which occurred during his employment “as a painter, [plumber] . . . that the final assimilation which caused his death occurred during his employment…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
The issue as framed before the single member of the Industrial Accident Board, and before the board on review, is: “whether the employee’s death was caused by lead poisoning suffered in his employment by the subscriber.” The decision of the single member, affirmed and adopted by the board, is as follows: “Upon the evidence in this case I find that the cause of the employee’s death on June 26,1918, was sclerosis of the coronary arteries and this sclerosis was caused by the accumulative effects of the lead which was being constantly assimilated into his system up to the time that the final…
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