Claim of Kwapich v. Aluminum Co. of America

Appeal by self-insured employer from a decision and award of the Workmen’s Compensation Board granting disability benefits to injured employee. The employer maintained a parking lot for the exclusive benefit of its employees located immediately adjacent to its plant. However, a high wire fence separated the parking lot from the plant area, so that it was necessary for employees leaving the plant to go through a main gate and travel 140 feet on a public highway to enter the parking lot. Upon finishing his work at the plant claimant customarily proceeded by the most direct route and by the…