Claim of Nickens v. Randstad

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 25, 2004, which ruled that claimant sustained an accidental injury in the course of his employment and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant worked for a temporary employment agency (hereinafter the employer) and was often assigned to a job with a garbage collection company throwing trash into a garbage truck. On October 7, 2003, he got caught between an arm of the truck’s hydraulic lift and the truck. He was lifted off the ground and pressed into the side of the truck, sustaining injuries that included multiple…