Claimant, a supervisory employee at a food processing plant, sustained an acute myocardial infarction on May 24, 1969 and died on June 7, 1969. The board has sustained an award finding exposure to diesel oil fumes resulted in an anoxia which was a significant contributory cause of the myocardial infarction, and thus an accidental injury within the meaning of the Workmen's Compensation Law. The evidence as to the fumes is taken from the history given by decedent to his physician...
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