Ozga v. Pathmark Stores, Inc.

—Mercure, J. P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed June 27, 1997, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was not causally related to his employment and denied the claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

Claimant’s decedent (then age 35) sustained a work-related injury when he sprained the third finger on his right hand and bruised his palm on January 29, 1994 while working as a seafood clerk at the employer’s supermarket. On May 2, 1994, decedent was admitted to the hospital where he died four days later. The Workers’ Compensation Board ultimately…