Claim of Gioia v. A. J. Courtmel Co.

This is a compensation case. Claimant was a brick layer’s helper. While carrying a hundred-pound bag of patent plaster, known as “ Neat ”, across a sidewalk and down three or four steps to a basement he suffered a heart attack described in medical terms as an acute coronary occlusion with myocardial infarction. The Workmen’s Compensation Board has found this to have been an industrial accident.

This claim follows the usual pattern in cases of this character, with arguments for and against usual work and unusual strain and effort. The record also contains the now familiar conflict of medical…