PARTIES Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
 TO
 DISPUTE : and
 Consolidated Rail Corporation
 STATEMENT Appeal by R. Seabolt from Carrier's decision to
 OF
 CLAIM : dismiss him on June 10, 1980.
 FINDINGS : Claimant, a machine operator with 3 1/2 years
 service, was missing from his assignment on
 May 8, 1980, after the lunch period. He had no
 authority to be absent.
 According to claimant, he had to leave his assign-
 ment due to a painful dental condition. While he testified that
 he consulted a dentist at the Ohio State Dental College the follow
 ing day, the record shows that he was treated there for the first
 time on July 11, 1980.
 No sound basis is perceived in this record for setting aside the dismissal. It was appropriate that Carrier consider, in determining the amount of discipline, that claimant had been suspended in February 1977 for property destruction and dismissed on October 11, 1977 for insubordination (he was subsequently restored to service on that occasion).


AWARD: Claim denied.

                Adopted at Philadelphia, Pa., October 4, 1984.


                  Haro'fd M. Weston, Chairman


C'rrier emb //~Emplfoyee Member