Correction officer wants $70K pension after slipping on lettuce

Written By Unknown on Senin, 05 Januari 2015 | 20.49

Jesus Encarnacion wants a $70,000 per year disability pension because he hurt his wrist after slipping on a piece of lettuce nearly 20 years ago.Photo: Robert Kalfus

He's made a lot of cabbage for slipping on a piece of lettuce.

A Westchester County correction officer worked just one day in the past 17 years, raking in $1.2 million in disability payments.

Now, Jesus Encarnacion says the $40,000 to $50,000 a year he will get in retirement pay after 25 years on the job — a taxed pension of 50 percent of his final average salary — is not enough.

What Encarnacion wants after slipping on a piece of lettuce and hurting his wrist monitoring a jailhouse eating area nearly two decades ago is a tax-free disability pension of 75 percent that would pay him $70,000 a year.

"All I'm looking for is what's rightfully owed to me under the contract," Encarnacion told The Post Sunday. "I'm not looking for anything else. I'm not looking to become rich."

Encarnacion said his on-the-job accident resulted in a permanent right-wrist injury that has left him in chronic pain and unable to perform even basic household tasks like shoveling snow outside his Peekskill home.

"I used to lift weights," Encarnacion, 55, said. "I can't do that anymore. I used to play baseball, basketball. Now, I have trouble dressing myself. I have to have my wife help me dress."

Encarnacion, a father of three, says he was hurt in 1997 when he slipped on a piece of lettuce at the bottom of a set of stairs and his right wrist got caught in a railing.

After two surgeries and seven years off, Encarnacion returned to work for one day in 2004, after a county doctor determined he was fit for light duty.

But that comeback, logging visitors, ended in the emergency room when Encarnacion pushed a button with his bad hand.

He never returned to work.

Encarnacion has since collected his salary from home, where supervisors sometimes pay surprise visits. He made $92,000 last year, according to payroll records.

The county has finally gotten him off its payroll, but Encarnacion is fighting with the state Comptroller's Office, which denied him a disability pension because he was not directly injured by an inmate's actions.

"A person on parole has more privileges than I do," Encarnacion said.


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