Kort v. Ingrasci

Appeal by the employer and its insurance carrier from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board awarding claimant compensation for total and partial disability due to an accidental back injury sustained on October 30, 1970. The claimant, a registered nurse working for a practicing dentist and oral surgeon, asserts that on October 30, 1970, immediately after completion of surgery upon a patient under general anesthesia and while carrying a tray of used instruments to a sink, she felt a sharp pain in her back and right buttock. Claimant, despite continuing pain for which she self-medicated…