Claim of Avila v. St. Francis Hospital

— Mahoney, P. J.

On February 13, 1965, claimant, an orderly employed by St. Francis Hospital in New York City, sustained a compensable low back injury while lifting a patient. Claimant was hospitalized for three weeks and treated with traction, physical therapy and medication. Although the hospital admission and discharge records included a diagnosis of herniated lumbar disc, there was no mention of a disc in the progress notes, and the X rays taken were normal. Claimant’s doctor and the *770workers’ compensation insurance carrier’s experts all agreed that claimant had sustained a lumbo-sacral…