Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 29161
THIRD DIVISION Docket No. MW-29526
92-3-90-3-461
The Third Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John C. Fletcher when award was rendered.

(Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes PARTIES TO DISPUTE:


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

(1) The Agreement was violated when the Carrier assessed Claimant K. B. Page a five (5) day actual suspension for allegedly failing to properly report a personal injury he sustained on August 23, 1989 [System File KBP89-54/12(89-865) SSY1.

(2) As a consequence of the violation referred to in Part (1) above, the Claimant's record shall be cleared of the charges leveled against him and he shall be compensatec:



FINDINGS:

The Third Division of the Adjustment Board upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved hereia.



Following an =nvestigation on a charge that Claimant had failed to report a personal injury at the time he sustained the injury he was assessed discipline of a five days suspension. On appeal the Organization alleged that Carrier failed to render a timely denial at one stage of the procedure. Before this Board the Org procedural and substantive grounds.
Form 1 Award No. 29161
Page 2 Docket No. MW-29526
92-3-90-3-461

The record before the Board supports the contentions of the Organization that Carrier was late in re of the merits of the matter.






                          By Order of Third Division


Attest:
      Nancy J./j,0Ver - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 3rd day of April 1992.