Bowns v. McCall

—Proceeding *669pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent which denied petitioner’s application for accidental disability retirement benefits.

Petitioner, a maintenance assistant employed by the State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, filed an application for accidental disability retirement benefits alleging that he is disabled because of injuries to his back sustained in an accident occurring on June 6, 1996.* On that day, petitioner and a co-worker were given…