Claim of Kuczynski v. Trinity Foundry

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 29, 2013, which ruled that ap*1290portionment applied to claimant’s workers’ compensation award.

Claimant was employed at Kennedy Valve from 1978 to 1980, a foundry that was owned by ITT Grinnell during that time. During 1981 and 1982, claimant worked at Trinity Foundry and, in 1994, he returned to work for Kennedy Valve, which was then owned by McWane Inc. He had only worked for Kennedy Valve/McWane for one week when he injured his shoulder and never returned to work there. In 2004, he filed a claim for workers’ compensation…