Verdugo v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

PROEB, Chief Judge.

This is a review of an award which denied the compensability of petitioner’s disabling psychiatric condition.

Petitioner filed a claim for workmen’s compensation benefits, stating that he sustained an industrial injury on March 3, 1974. He testified that, while working as a mill shift foreman, he suffered symptoms of confusion and dizziness and he then blacked out and fell to the ground. Petitioner also testified that he had had several similar episodes of dizziness and confusion since approximately 1967, following instances of inhaling fumes while on the job.…