delivered the opinion of the court:
Stаnislaw Golembiewski was an ironmolder thirty-nine years old, who had been in the employ of the W. A. Jones Foundry and Machine Company for twelve years prior tо November i, 1917. He was a steady worker but was addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquor and had had delirium tremens. He was afflicted with arteriosсlerosis and had a high blood pressure. On November 1, 1917, he was working in the foundry, carrying molten metal and pouring it into flasks. In doing this work the metal, which was melted in a large cupola, was drawn off into a vat resting upon a buggy, which ran upon tracks in the foundry. From the vat the metal was poured into an iron ladle and carried by a handle extending across the center and about two feet on either side. The ladle and handles weighed about 65 pounds, and when filled with melted iron made a total weight of about 175 pounds, which was carried by two men to the flask into which the metal was poured. The temperature of the room was about eighty degrees though the weather outside was cold enough to require an overcoat. About the middle of the afternoon Golembiewski, who had been engaged two or three minutes before in the work which has been mentioned, was seen leaning against a flask and a few of the workmen were talking tо him but he did not answer. The assistant to the foundry superintendent noticing that he appeared to be unconscious, sent for a doctor. Golembiewski was sent to an emergency hospital a few moments later and afterward was taken to the Robert Burns Hospital, where he remained for eight days, when he was taken to the County Hospital. He remained there for some months, and on April 25, 1918, an inquest of insanity was held, he was found to be insane, was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Dunning, and his insanity has continued from that time. A conservator was appointed.by the probate court of Cook county, who on April 7, 1920, made an application to the Industrial Commission for an award of compensation from Golembiewski’s employer. On a hearing befоre an arbitrator the compensation was denied, but upon review by the Industrial Commission upon the same evidence that was heard before the arbitrator the commission set aside the decision and entered an award in favor of the claimant. The circuit court of Cook county affirmed the аward, and the employer has sued out a writ of error to reverse its judgment on the ground that the record contains no evidence of any accident arising out of and in the course of the employment.
Aside from the testimony as to what occurred at the time Golembiewski was overcome in the molding room, Dr. A. N. Stober, the only physician who was a witness, testified, in response to a hypothetical question, that heavy exertion in a heated atmosphеre might contribute toward the occurrence of a cerebral hemorrhage in a man whose condition was that of Golembiewski. It might cause a hеmorrhage and paralysis, and a hemorrhage which produced paralysis might also interfere with the mental condition. He said that the high tension and exсessive exertion in a heated room would have a tendency to raise the blood pressure, and when the blood pressure reaches a certain point some of the vessels in the body give way, causing a hemorrhage. The vessels which are broken are those branches in the middle cerebral artery. He testified that he had seen Golembiewski in the summer of 1919 at Dunning and examined him, and that he presented certain nervous symptoms of a lesion whiсh the doctor assumed came from the cerebral hemorrhage, and he had a paralysis of the right side. He had motor aphasia and was laсking in mentality. He had a brain lesion established for some time,—a condition which rarely recovered,—and in the doctor’s opinion an operatiоn would not improve the condition of his mind. The only cause, in his opinion, which would produce the condition the man was in would be plugging of an artery with some substance, such as a blood clot or an embolism. Such an obstruction in the blood stream disturbs the functions of the arteries and very often results in a rupture of thе artery. Heavy drinking would make a man more susceptible to just what occurred. A man who was perfectly normal would probably not have been affected under those circumstances.
Golembiewski had an attack of a somewhat similar nature in 1916, when he fell on Blackhawk avenue and was disabled for about two weeks. He subsequently returned to work and worked steadily afterward. There was no evidence of unusually heavy work or an excessively high temрerature or that either the work or the temperature was such as would have been likely to be injurious to a man in a normal condition, but the evidenсe of Dr. Stober tends to show that the work and the temperature might be expected to produce just such an injury as Golembiewski suffered, to a man whosе arteries were in the condition in which his were.
In Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co. v. Industrial Board,
The circuit court did not err in affirming the award, and its is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.