In re the Claim of Apiado

Appeal from a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, filed December 21, 2001, which ruled that claimant was disqualified *885from receiving unemployment insurance benefits because her employment was terminated due to misconduct.

Claimant worked as a laboratory technician in the employer hospital’s blood bank. She was discharged from this position after mistakenly dispensing a unit of blood from the general blood bank supply for transfusion into a postoperative patient who had previously deposited a unit of her own blood to be used by her as needed. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal…