Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. Claimant was employed as a building superintendent. On February 14, 1948 an oil burner on which he was working backfired and he suffered burns in the face and ear damage from which it could he found that he experienced a resulting dizziness and loss of equilibrium. The following year, on September 19, 1949 still working in the same premises in the same job, but then for a different employer as owner of the building, claimant fell from a ladder while changing an electric light bulb. A few days after this he noticed pain in the right arm and leg; and when admitted to a hospital it was found he sustained partial paralysis of the right leg which was diagnosed as due to cerebral thrombosis. The board has found that the resulting disability is chargeable to the original accident of 1948 and has discharged the employer and carrier covering the risk at the time of the second accident. The board would, in our opinion, be able to find on this record that dizziness resulting from the 1948 accident was a cause of the fall from the ladder in 1949. But unless the conditions of the work at the time of the second accident, i.e., the fact the claimant was on a height above the floor on a ladder doing his work, were to be entirely excluded from causation, the physical conditions caused by the prior injury would be treated as a factor, but not the only factor, entering into the second accident. Thus-
