Claim of Imbriani v. Berkar Knitting Mills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtGraffeo, J.
Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 8, 1997, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was not causally related to his employment and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.
*728Decedent, a heavy smoker, was employed in the textile industry for 30 years. For the last five years of his career, he worked as a knitting machine operator at Berkar Knitting Mills (hereinafter the employer), a sweater manufacturer, where, throughout his 10-hour work shift, he was exposed to airborne cotton dust and fibers which accumulated on hard surfaces at the…
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