Janet Gill — ADJ13408105

Applicant Janet Gill, a security guard at San Francisco Airport, filed a claim stating a September 15, 2019 injury date when she fell from a chair injuring her back and neck. The WCJ found no AOE/COE injury on September 15, 2019 and ordered applicant take nothing. On reconsideration, the Board found that contemporaneous evidence—including applicant's same-day injury report, employee statement, and supervisor's accident report—all established the injury actually occurred on September 10, 2019, and the discrepancy was a mistake. The Board held that pleadings are liberally construed and amended to conform to proof, so the September 15 date error was immaterial. The Board rescinded the F&O, substituted a finding of injury AOE/COE on September 10, 2019, gave no weight to defendant's unauthenticated surveillance video, and returned the matter to the WCJ for further proceedings.