The Appellate Court recently overturned the Workers’ Compensation Commission denial of benefits for a worker who fractured her left arm when she fell at home, shoveling snow and ice in her driveway.  The worker’s company provided a company vehicle to pick up co-employees to transport them to job sites, and she had returned home for lunch when the accident occurred, but was to go out again for another job assignment after lunch.

In reversing the Commission decision, the Appellate Court held since the employee did not have a fixed job site, and required her to travel to various locations, that her conduct was reasonable and foreseeable by the employer.  Thus, according to the Court, she was a travelling employee.  In so holding the Court found that she was exposed to hazards greater than that of the general public due to her travel schedule.