Gill v. Tanner Heavy Equipment

JiDECUIR, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a worker’s compensation case wherein the hearing officer found that plaintiffs heart attack was a compensable injury. We reverse.

FACTS

On October 22, 1993, claimant, Tony Gill, was employed as a heavy equipment diesel mechanic by defendant, Tanner Heavy Equipment. Gill’s duties, both in the shop and in the field, included undercarriage work, such as putting tracks on trackhoes and other heavy equipment. On the day Gill suffered his heart attack, he had been replacing a track on a Mitsubishi 280 trackhoe, one of one hundred and fifty pieces…