Woods v. McCall

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Comptroller which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a correction officer at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County, was removing a prison inmate from his cell when the automatic cell gate stuck and did not open. Petitioner sustained a back injury while pulling on the cell gate in an attempt to open it. His subsequent application for accidental disability…