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B-193559 1 (1979-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhea0001 and id is 1 raw text is: \ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-193559 DTE: April 27, 1979 MLATTER M~Wil/in Q arrison - nvoluntary Sick and Annual Leave DIGEST: Employee performs duties for which agency requires safety goggles. He was placed on involuntary sick and annual leave after medical determination that due to vision imrirment he should not be required to we~agaty goggles. Claim for recredit of sick leave is denied, since agency may place employee en med1icaevidence indicates that he is incapacitatedformance of assigned duties._ By letter dated October 11, 1978, Mr. William 0. Garrison, an employee of the Department of the Nugy, -'N'Y'/? has appealed our Claims Division's disallowance of his claim for the recredit of-invoLunta.ry sick and annual lechavc ged during the period August 29, 1976, through November 7, 1976. The record shows that Mr. Garrison, who is employed as a painter at the Naval Air Rework Facility, Marine )iea Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, Drth -Crlina. has c a non-occupational visual impairment of both eyes. He must wear thick eyeglasses. His duties include spraying aircraft fuel tanks with polyurethane paint for which he is required to wear a full face respirator. Personnel working in the paint shop are required to wear safety goggles. Mr. Garrison requested his employer to provide him with special glasses to wear under the respirator. His supervisor provided Mr. Garrison with plastic goggles to wear over his eyeglasses. The goggles fogged up his eyeglasses and he was unable to paint. An agency medical evaluation of August 26, 1976, concluded that Mr. Garrison had partial visual acuity and depth perception. It was recommended that he should not be required to wear goggles due to his restricted field of vision. It was determined that he was not physically qualified to safely perform his duties.

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