Claim of Bloom v. Cohen

In awarding death benefits in a heart case, the board found that in preparation for his day’s work as a carpenter engaged in lathing on a building construction job, decedent entered the building with his tools (shown to weigh six or seven pounds), “carried them up a flight of steps to the second floor and then descended the steps * * * to get a wooden ‘ horse ’ ” from his car and while reparking his car collapsed and died. The board did not determine the cause of death but found causal relationship nevertheless and stated in the form of a finding, which was, however, meaningless as such: “…