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ALTHOUGH PETITIONER SLIPPED AND FELL ON ICE STEPPING OFF A BUS SHE WAS CLEANING, THE INCIDENT QUALIFIED AS AN ACCIDENT WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE RETIREMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW ENTITLING PETITIONER TO ACCIDENTAL DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS, CLEANING BUSES WAS NOT PETITIONER’S NORMAL FUNCTION AND SHE HAD NEVER BEEN IN THE PARKING AREA WHERE SHE SLIPPED AND FELL (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, annulling the Comptroller’s ruling, determined that petitioner was injured in an accident as defined by the Retirement and Social Security Law and was therefore entitled to accidental disability retirement benefits. Petitioner, a school bus attendant, was injured when she slipped and fell on ice exiting a bus she had been asked to clean. Petitioner’s job was to help disabled kids on the bus and was cleaning a bus when she slipped and fell:

The record reveals that petitioner had never been directed to wash buses as part of her duties as a bus attendant. She was normally involved in assisting disabled children get on and off the bus, and ensuring their safety while riding the bus. Notably, her job description made no mention of tasks involving either cleaning or maintaining the buses. Moreover, and significantly, except for the date in question, petitioner had never been to the parking lot where the buses were kept. She was therefore wholly unfamiliar with the surface conditions. According to petitioner, on the date of the incident, it was cold with a few snow flurries and there were a few piles of old snow a couple of bus widths away ,,, . She testified that, as she exited the bus, her view of the ground was obstructed by the final step, which was longer than usual to accommodate disabled children getting on and off the bus. It was then that her foot made contact with the ice beneath the step, and she slipped and fell.

Under the circumstances presented, the incident was clearly sudden, unexpected and not a risk of petitioner’s ordinary job duties … . Matter of Larivey v DiNapoli, 2019 NY Slip Op 00018, Third Dept 1-3-19

 

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