Schepcoff v. State Industrial Insurance System

OPINION

This is an appeal from an order of the district court affirming an appeals officer’s decision denying appellant worker’s compensation benefits. At the hearing before the appeals officer, appellant testified that in February of 1990, he was employed as a carpenter by Custom Business Interiors in Las Vegas, Nevada. At approximately 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 2, 1990, appellant’s supervisor told a group of five or six employees, including appellant, that they were required to have their T-squares for work the next day. On cross-examination, appellant described the supervisor’s…