Armour & Co. v. Cannon

WENTWORTH, Judge.

The self-insured employer appeals a worker’s compensation order finding that the claimant sustained a compensable heart attack, and we affirm. After over two years as a forklift operator in the warehouse, claimant was given new job duties as a local truck driver. It is uncontroverted that these new duties involved much more strenuous physical labor; for example, claimant was required to personally unload, *265without assistance, approximately 20,000 pounds of meat daily. After several weeks of this activity, claimant began to notice some chest discomfort and sustained a heart…