Claim of Storm v. Phillips Lighting Co.

Peters, EJ.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 15, 2013, which ruled, among other things, that claimant’s application for workers’ compensation benefits was timely filed.

Claimant, a machine operator for the employer, sustained a work-related injury to her right shoulder in 2002. She experienced pain in that shoulder and, in 2010, underwent surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear. An occupational physician, Michael Lax, opined in 2011 that claimant’s shoulder condition consti*1313tuted an occupational disease that had been occasioned by repetitive arm motion in…