ALBANY, N.Y. — An appeals court in New York agrees that a transit bus operators’ injury was not eligible for workers’ compensation. She says she suffers post-traumatic stress because a passenger she barred from boarding climbed onto the front of the vehicle, pounded at the windshield and tried to grab at her through an open side window. The court declines to disturb the board’s determination that this event was no more psychologically stressful than events experienced by fellow bus operators facing unruly passengers.
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