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HEART ATTACK DEEMED WORK-RELATED.

The Third Department determined substantial evidence supported the conclusion decedent-worker's heart attack was employment-related. Decedent suffered the heart attack while walking to a storage structure in freezing temperatures:

[T]he testimony and evidence in the record demonstrates that shortly before decedent collapsed, he was instructed to add insulation in an attempt to fix the frozen valve and, to do so, traveled outside at night across snow-covered ground in freezing temperatures to locate and retrieve additional insulation from a storage structure located at least 500 feet away. In addition, Thomas Martin, the lead process operator, explained in his testimony that if decedent and his colleague were unable to quickly fix the frozen valve that evening, the glycol treatment facility at the airport would have “shut[] down.” Based upon the foregoing, Raymond Basri, a doctor specializing in internal medicine with 25 years of experience in diagnostic cardiology who reviewed decedent's medical records, opined that decedent's work activities immediately prior to his collapse, in combination with the environmental conditions at that time and the physical and emotional stress associated with having to assist with the timely repair of the frozen valve, were significant contributing factors to decedent's acute myocardial infarction and resulting death. Matter of Kilcullen v AfFCO/Avports Mgt. LLC, 2016 NY Slip Op 03033, 3rd Dept 4-21-16


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