Becker v. Stryco Construction Co.

—Carpinello, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 9, 1997, which ruled that claimant’s decedent did not sustain a causally related disability and denied her claim for workers’ compensation death benefits.

On April 16, 1992 at approximately 9:20 a.m., claimant’s decedent, approximately 60 years old, was working on a construction site moving 16-foot two-by-fours when he was stricken and fell from a four-foot high scaffold. Decedent was rushed to the hospital and died later that day from a myocardial infarction. Claimant, decedent’s wife, thereafter filed a…