Dumont v. Industrial Commission

We have held in the past that when death or disability ensues from an extraordinary effort which in any way has aggravated, accelerated, or precipitated a cardiac collapse, the same constitutes a compensable labor accident. Cordero v. Industrial Commission, 68 P.R.R. 118 (1948). Thus, in Rivera v. Industrial Commission; Atiles, etc., Int., 79 P.R.R. 365 (1956), we stated that in view of the workman’s idiopathic condition — hypertrophy and acute dilatation of the heart — and, among other things, the exertion made by him shortly before his death — washing the ambulance of which he was chauffeur…