Claim of Burt v. County of Chemung

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 7, 1985.

Claimant’s decedent was a heavy equipment operator employed by the Chemung County Highway Department. On July 7, 1980, the date of his death, he was operating a heavy roller as part of a crew applying blacktop to a highway. While members of of the work crew were performing work preparatory to decedent’s operation of the roller, it was parked by the road. When this work was completed, a coemployee went to ask decedent to activate the roller, and he was found dead. An autopsy determined that decedent suffered from…