Claim of McMicking v. City of Niagara Falls

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 20, 1984, which ruled that claimant’s decedent did not sustain a causally related disability and denied both occupational disease and death benefits.

In October of 1979, while serving as a motorcycle policeman with the City of Niagara Falls, claimant’s decedent sustained a cerebral concussion and fractures of the extremities. Two months later he returned to work, but being unable to discharge the functions of that position, he was reassigned to light duty. On March 24, 1980, while working as a radio…