Perry

We review a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (Board) which terminated, as of April 10, 1975, petitioner Perry’s workers’ compensation temporary disability benefits for an industrial injury.

The following facts are without substantial, if any, dispute.

Perry, 43, in his employment by Santa Fe Trail Transportation Company, customarily lifted sacks of coffee beans weighing about 150 pounds. While so engaged he developed a left inguinal hernia which concededly resulted in an industrial disability. Such an injury is .ordinarily speedily repaired by surgery, after which the disability continues for about six weeks. But without such corrective surgery the worker’s disability may continue indefinitely. Perry, reporting to a hospital for such surgery, was given the customary “pre-op tests.” These tests disclosed an adverse “cardiac condition” of nonindustrial causation, following which there was medical agreement that Perry “was not a candidate for [hernia surgery] because of the serious nature of the heart problem.” Perry was willing to have the necessary operation whenever the heart doctor “gives the okay,” an approval which was not forthcoming. As a result…