Date: | 11/30/2004 |
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Organization: | Department of Industrial Accidents |
Docket Number: | DIA Board No. 03878601 |
Location: | Boston |
- Employee: Roma T. Raczkowski
- Employer: Center for Extended Care at Amherst
- Self Insurer: Mass Care Self-Insurance Group
HORAN, J. The administrative judge found that Roma Raczkowski, age fifty-three, emigrated to the United States from Poland approximately thirty years prior to her industrial injury. Though she had obtained the equivalent of an associate's degree in stenography in Poland, she has no typing or computer skills transferable to this country. After emigrating, the employee worked in a factory, and then as a home case/nursing assistant for approximately twenty years. In 1999, she began working at the Center for Extended Care as a nursing assistant. Her job involved taking care of patients, including lifting them as necessary. (Dec. 2.)