| Date: | 07/30/2001 |
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| Organization: | Department of Industrial Accidents |
| Docket Number: | DIA Board No. 807696-85 |
| Location: | Boston |
- Employee: Stephen O'Brien
- Employer: Gillette Co.
- Self Insurer: Gillette Co.
CARROLL, J. The employee appeals from a decision in which an administrative judge denied his claim for benefits as a result of an emotional injury attributable to a series of work events in the early 1980’s. In 1997, the reviewing board affirmed a former administrative judge’s decision, insofar as he concluded that the employee was not fired, but had voluntarily left his employment. O’Brien v. Gillette, 11 Mass. Workers’ Comp. Rep. 207 (1997). However, the case was recommitted for further findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding work events – other than the termination – that the employee had also alleged as causes for his emotional disability. That recommittal went to a different administrative judge, and it is the decision after recommittal that we now have before us. Finding error, we recommit the case once again.