The board has found that decedent, a maintenance worker, "did not sustain an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment", and that prior to the fatal accident "he had deviated from his employment and abandoned it." Such determinations are factual and thus if supported by substantial evidence must be sustained. As this court stated in Matter of Owen v. Oneida Ltd. (
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