Claim of Williams v. Schenectady County Department of Social Services

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 1, 1994, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a causally related disability and denied her claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant was a 30-year-old social welfare client examiner when she injured her lower back while bending over to tie her shoe during a break from work. The Board disallowed claimant’s subsequent application for workers’ compensation benefits on the ground that claimant’s shoe-tying was personal in nature and that the injury resulting therefrom did not arise out of or in the course of her…