Claim of Gaylord v. Ichabod Crane Central School District

—Peters, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed February 10, 1997, which, inter alia, ruled that claimant sustained a compensable injury and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

On January 12, 1994, claimant, a school bus driver, began transporting two children with learning disabilities. One of the students was an autistic child who continually kicked the back of claimant’s seat and the other was a nonambulatory child with cerebral palsy who had to be lifted into the back seat of the vehicle. Apparently the heavy lifting combined with the rhythmic kicking caused…