Claim of Lenz v. Fort Miller Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 16, 1993.

We affirm the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board that claimant is not precluded from receiving compensation benefits by Workers’ Compensation Law § 43.*

The record shows that when claimant applied for employment at Fort Miller Company, he completed a "Job Placement *834Medical Questionnaire”. In response to the question of whether he ever had "numbness hands, feet”, he wrote no. Claimant commenced working at Fort Miller on August 4, 1990 at a job that required repetitive use of his wrists. Soon thereafter he…