Dixon v. Salvation Army

Jim Hannah, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission that Guy Dixon was not an employee of the Salvation Army at the time he suffered injury. Based on this finding, the Commission denied worker’s compensation benefits. At the time of the injury, Dixon was enrolled in and performing duties assigned him in a Salvation Army alcohol rehabilitation program. Although Dixon suffered injury while operating a forklift, he was not operating the forklift in the performance of employment duties for the Salvation Army, but instead was engaged in work therapy…