In re the Claim of Edie

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed July 29, 1997, which denied claimant’s motion for reconsideration of a prior decision ruling that claimant was disqualified from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because his employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant was discharged from his employment as a conductor after he cut the electricity to one of the train’s doors while the train was moving. It was the employer’s policy that for safety reasons the doors were to be cut only when the train was stopped. Significantly, at the time of this incident…