Claim of Schulman v. Lederle Laboratories

—Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed December 7, 1994, which ruled that claimant sustained a compensable injury.

Claimant worked as a member of the employer’s hazardous waste emergency response team. In February 1993 claimant filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits, contending that he had been exposed to toxic chemicals in August 1991 while working to contain a spill from an overturned gasoline truck and that this exposure had caused him to suffer a blood disorder known as myelodysplastic syndrome. After a hearing, a Workers’ Compensation Judge…