Stephen Equipment Co. v. Baca

STERNBERG, Judge.

The employer, Stephen Equipment Company, and the insurer, John Deere Insurance Company, seek review of a final order of the Industrial Commission awarding the widow of the deceased, Leon Kliesen, death benefits. We affirm.

Kliesen was employed as a service manager, a primarily supervisory position involving little strenuous physical activity. On June 19, 1981, he suffered a fatal myocardial infarction while attempting to load a 150-pound tool chest into his truck. According to the testimony of the widow and of a co-worker, Kliesen was bringing the tool chest to work because he…