State ex rel. Petrie v. Atlas Iron Processors, Inc.

Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4121:1-5 covers “workshops and factories.” Claimant proposes that the scrapyard’s perimeter fencing was a structural enclosure sufficient to classify it as a “workshop” and render Ohio Adm.Code Chapter 4121:1-5 applicable. We agree.

The fence, in this case, indeed set forth the boundaries of work activity. It also served to keep unauthorized nonemployees out, and, in so doing, established its confines as a place accessible only to employees for the purpose of carrying out the company’s business.

Accordingly, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed, and a limited…