The application was properly denied on the ground that petitioner, whose disabling line-of-duty ankle injury was sustained when he tripped over a raised plank of plywood covering part of a precinct house stairway landing, failed to show that his injury was the result of an accident, i.e., a sudden and unexpected event (see, Matter of Starnella v Bratton,
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