LIFTED HEAVY CAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 7

LIFTED HEAVY CAN

MILK ROUNDSMAN’S CLAIM CAUSE OF HEART STRAIN Lifting a heavy milkcan was alleged by Reginald Spencer Hutton, a milk roundsman, to have caused him heart strain, leading to permanent incapacity, for which he claimed £S92 compensation against his employers, Stones Bros., milk vendors, in the Arbitration Court yesterday. Mr. Tuck, for Hutton, said that he hud been employed by the firm for 17 years. He had to lift heavy cans weighing up to 1751 b. and claimed that following the lifting of a can on to the cart in January last he suffered a severe pain in his heart and was later confined to bed. He admitted also that he had suffered three attacks of rheumatic fever in the past 25 years. He had continued to work after his collapse in January, although he had not done any heavy lifting. After being confined to bed for some time, be endeavoured to work, but was unable to do so. Mr. West argued that the Court had to decide whether Hutton had injured his heart while at work and whether incapacity followed on the accident. He contended that an effort was being made to bring a progressive ailment like heart disease within the meaning of accident. After hearing medical evidence the Court reserved its decision.