An upstate psych center employee was caught kayaking in Puerto Rico while claiming he was too injured to work, State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott said Monday.

Ryan Haley, 30, of Rome, applied for Workers’ Compensation benefits twice in 2016, reporting a back injury. Haley received $2,286.05 in April, while he was on a kayaking vacation, officials said.

Haley signed a medical release for the kayak excursion certifying that he was physically fit and had no injuries, Leahy Scott said.

“This defendant is accused of a contemptuous fraud in which he feigns being too injured to work while paddling a kayak on a Caribbean retreat,” she said. “Moreover, with utter disregard for the critical responsibilities of his job, he allegedly attacked one of the very patients for whom he was meant to care.”

The security assistant at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy received another $407.80 in February, when he was caught in living it up California, officials said.

Investigators found that he planned and paid for both trips before claiming funds for alleged on-the-job injuries.

After the vacations, on May 28, Haley returned to work and tackled a patient to the ground, according to Leahy-Scott.

He was arrested and charged with grand larceny, falsifying business records, insurance fraud, workers’ comp fraud and endangering the welfare of a disabled person, all felonies.

Haley did not respond to messages seeking comment.