Claim of Diaz v. Plaza Hotel

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed September 25, 1979. Claimant, a 52-year-old painter, suffered an injury to his left foot on April 14, 1978, when he fell as he left his place of employment at the Plaza Hotel at the conclusion of his work. The situs of claimant’s fall while ascending the stairway from the underground of the employer’s leased premises to the street level was within the geographical area necessarily provided by and required by the employer for use by its employees. This stairway was used by the Plaza’s employees as the sole method of ingress and…