Claim of Lubrano v. Malinet

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 13, 1983, which ruled that claimant’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.

Claimant, a 16-year-old gasoline service station attendant, sustained multiple burns from an explosion which occurred when he threw a lighted match into a can containing a residue of gasoline, oil and grease. Apparently, no explosion occurred when this trick had been performed on previous occasions by another employee and claimant. The Board affirmed the decision of the administrative law judge holding that the injury, which…