Matter of Paez v. Lackman Culinary Services

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 6, 2015, which ruled, among other things, that claimant sustained a permanent partial disability and an 80% loss of wage-earning capacity.

Claimant immigrated from the Dominican Republic in 2008 and began working for the employer as a food service worker. On October 7, 2010, he injured his lower back when he slipped and fell while stocking items that he had unloaded from a truck into a freezer and, consequently, filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits. His case was established for accident, notice and causal…