Claim of Ussach v. Carolee Shops, Inc.

Appeal from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board. In claimant’s employment as a store manager it was his usual work to clear the store window in preparation for the window dresser. While doing this work he stooped over to pick up a small display glass and felt pain in his back. “I got a sharp pain” he testified. The condition was diagnosed as a sacroiliac sprain. There is medical proof that it could be caused by bending over. A physician who examined him described the injury as happening when claimant “felt a snap in the low back”. It is argued that since an accident must,…