Legal Opinion
Claim of Wallace v. Oswego Wire, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 4, 2006PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 14, 2005, which ruled that claimant sustained a causally related consequential injury.
Claimant sustained a work-related right knee injury in March 2002 and thereafter began receiving workers’ compensation benefits. In October 2002, while still out of work, claimant was at home cutting wood with a table saw when his injured right knee gave out, causing him to lose his balance and cut his left hand on the saw. A workers’ compensation law judge subse*1058quently determined that claimant’s left hand injury was consequentially…
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