Claim of Parmenter v. New York Telephone Co.

— Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 29, 1982, as amended by a decision filed April 11, 1983, which excused claimant’s failure to give timely notice of accident. The board has found that claimant injured her right ankle on October 16, 1979 when she stepped into a hole in the company parking lot, but that she did not give notice to her employer until November 26, 1979 after she had received medical treatment for the first time. Failure to comply with the 30-day written notice of accident requirement (Workers’ Compensation Law, § 18) was excused on the…