Wynn v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc.

GUNN, Judge.

The issue in this case is whether an employee’s death by work induced heart attack during the continued performance of his usual duties constitutes ground for worker’s *88compensation death benefits. We find that it does.

Jack Wynn was an over-the-road truck driver for Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. While making his usual run between Kansas City, Missouri and Indianapolis, Indiana, he suffered a massive heart attack near Danville, Missouri. Truck driver friends came to his aid, but he succumbed on the way to the Mexico, Missouri hospital.

Claim for worker’s compensation death benefits was…