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B-206544 1 (1982-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadklu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FILE: B-206544 MATTERR OF: L DIGEBT: THI COMPTROLL*1N0 GENEIRAL OF THU UNITIE STATUE WAUHINOTON, l,0, 5054. DATE; July 7, 1982 audis B. Patterson - Restoration of Sick Leave Employee was placed on involuntary sick leave after a federal medical officer found that the employee had suffered a hearing loss and because the employee's job required work in noise hazardous areas. Sick leave may not be recredited to the erployee's account as the place- ment of the employee on involuntary sick leave was based on competent medical advice. Subsequent testing, which showed that the employee's hearing was not perma- nently impaired and that he could be returned to his duties, does not invalidate the earlier findings. Mr. Laudis D. Patterson, an Air Force employee, appeals our Claims Group's denial of his claim for recredit of 96 hours of sick leave used while he was placed on involuntary leave. For the following reasons we affirm our Claims Group's denial of Mr. Patterson's claim. By letter dated October 5, 1976, Dr. H. A. Wurst, a federal medical officer, directed that Mr. Patterson, a sheet metal mechanic at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics C-nter, be removed from noise hazardous areas for 30 days. Dr. Wurst based this opinion on the results of two audiometric tests, which indicated that Mr. Patterson had sustained a threshold shift iin his hearing. Dr. Wurst directed that Mr. Patterson's hearing be reevaluated 30 days after removal from nolso hazardous areas. Mr. Patterson was detailed to clerical duties in another office from October 7 to October 18, 1976. On October 19, 1976, Mr. Patterson was placed on enforced sick leave because his duties as a sheet metal mechanic required exposure to noise hazards and no other duties were available to which he could be detailed. Based on further evaluations and testing, it was later determined that Mr. Patterson's hearing condition did not require permanent removal from noise hazardous I N 101

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