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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of a decision finding applicant's psychiatric injury compensable. The injury, sustained within six months of employment, qualified as sudden and extraordinary under Labor Code Section 3208.3(d). This was based on applicant's credible testimony that a soil compactor recoiled and fell on him, an event he had never experienced or heard of before. The Board deferred to the Workers' Compensation Judge's credibility determination, finding no substantial evidence to reject it.
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The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board denied reconsideration of a decision finding applicant's psychiatric injury compensable. The injury, sustained within six months of employment, qualified as sudden and extraordinary under Labor Code Section 3208.3(d). This was based on applicant's credible testimony that a soil compactor recoiled and fell on him, an event he had never experienced or heard of before. The Board deferred to the Workers' Compensation Judge's credibility determination, finding no substantial evidence to reject it.
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