Claim of Connolly v. Covanta Energy Corp.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 7, 2013, which ruled that claimant sustained a causally related occupational disease and awarded workers’ compensation benefits.

For approximately 23 years, claimant worked at a garbage recycling and energy production facility in the Village of Westbury, Nassau County owned and operated by Covanta Energy Corporation. During this time, he worked as a maintenance mechanic, as well as a maintenance planner, and frequented all areas of the plant, including the boiler house where the garbage was burned and the cooling tower where…