Baur v. Mesta MacHine Co.

Opinion by

Justice Alpern,

This Court decided in Baur v. Mesta Machine Co., 393 Pa. 380, 143 A. 2d 12 (1958) that when an employer voluntarily provides a first aid room and administers to ill as well as injured employees, it has *619the duty to provide proper medical care. If the employee’s death from coronary occlusion was found to he due to the neglect of the employer in not providing proper medical care, this would constitute an “industrial accident” which is compensable under the Workmen’s Compensation Law. In reaching this conclusion this Court adopted the arguments advanced by Mesta and its…