Claim of Rice v. Kavanagh Trucking Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 13, 1978, which held that claimant sustained an accident which arose but of and in the course of his employment. On August 19, 1975, claimant, a truck driver, went to work at Tupper Lake, New York, at 6:00 a.m. He started his tractor, backed it under a trailer and hooked up the brake hoses. He then cranked up the trailer dollies and proceeded to drive the tractor trailer to Canada with the trailer loaded with wood chips. When he reached Potsdam, New York, after having driven about an hour, he felt a numbing sensation in his…