Claim of Viau v. Walsh Trucking Services, LLC

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 28, 2001, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a further causally related disability.

Claimant, a truck driver, pulled a muscle in ;he right side of his chest on May 23, 1997 while turning the steering wheel of a tractor trailer. He immediately sought medical treatment and his employer filed a C-2 report of injury. Thereafter, on September 9, 1997, claimant was backing a tractor trailer into a loading dock when a tire caught the curb causing the steering wheel to twist and claimant to strain his right rib muscle. He…