Opinion
May 18, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Stephen Crane, J.).
Respondents' determination that the injury petitioner sustained to his shoulder and back when, in the course of his employment with the New York City Parks Department, he lifted a wheelbarrow into a dump truck, was not the result of an unexpected event, and thus not an "accident" within the meaning of Retirement and Social Security Law § 605 (b) (3), was not arbitrary and capricious (see, Matter of Lichtenstein v Board of Trustees, 57 N.Y.2d 1010; Matter of Danyi v Board of Trustees, 176 A.D.2d 451).
Concur — Ellerin, J.P., Wallach, Kupferman, Ross and Mazzarelli, JJ.