Claim of Galvez v. Gold Coast Enterprises, Ltd.

Claimant, employed in a restaurant as a pantry-man and dishwasher, worked a 6-day week, 10 hours per day during the week and from 14 to 16 hours per day on week ends, for wages of $65 per week plus room and board on the employer’s premises. On his day off, he went to his room, rested, and later, while descending a stairway to the kitchen to prepare food for himself, fell and was injured. The board found that “where, as here, claimant received his room and board by virtue of the contract of employment, his slipping on a stairway of the employer’s premises while on his way to the kitchen to get…