Dixon v. State Industrial Insurance System

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This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying an employee worker’s compensation benefits for an injury sustained during an uncompensated lunch hour.

Appellant Paulette Dixon (“Dixon”) was an employee of EG&G Energy Measurements in Las Vegas, temporarily assigned to work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (“Laboratory”) in Los Alamos, New Mexico. One workday, during her lunch hour, Dixon rode a bicycle provided by the Laboratory around the parking lot at the worksite, fell, and suffered a fractured wrist.

Dixon submitted a claim for worker’s compensation benefits for…