Claim of Susi v. Bermil Contracting Co.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed March 10, 1997, which ruled that the death of claimant’s decedent was not causally related to a prior compensable accident and denied her claim for workers’ compensation death benefits.

Claimant’s decedent suffered a compensable knee injury in 1980 and was awarded workers’ compensation benefits based upon a permanent partial disability. In 1990, decedent was standing on a ladder repairing a window sill on the second *827floor of his home when he cried out in pain that his leg hurt and fell to the ground, sustaining fatal injuries.…