Claim of Dockum v. Syroco, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 28, 1997, which ruled that claimant did not suffer a compensable injury and denied workers’ compensation benefits.

On July 29, 1994 claimant, an electrician, was instructed by his supervisor, John Perry, to diagram an electrical panel that claimant originally had built and installed. Later that day, Perry discovered that claimant had physically altered the panel and advised claimant to reassemble the panel as it needed to be operational by the end of the workday. When Perry next checked on claimant’s progress, he…