Matter of Piorkowski v. Pat Forsha Truck & Auto

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 10, 2016, which ruled, among other things, that claimant’s left knee injury was a continuation of an injury from a previously established case.

Claimant sustained an established work-related claim for injuries to, as is relevant here, his left knee stemming from a 2006 fall while employed by Pat Forsha Truck & Auto. Claimant remained symptomatic with regard to pain, underwent three left knee surgeries — the most recent of which was in May 2014 — and received a cortisone injection in the left knee in August 2014.

In 2014,…