Carter v. Volunteer Apparel, Inc.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

The primary issue in this workers’ compensation appeal is whether an injury, sus tained by Plaintiff-employee on her employer’s premises prior to the time work began, is compensable. Plaintiffs injury occurred in the break area of Defendant’s plant and the Chancellor found that her injury was not compensable because it did not occur within a reasonable time prior to work. Plaintiff appeals.

THE FACTS

Plaintiff-Appellant, Betty Jean Carter, is 52 years of age and all her adult work life has been spent operating sewing machines in apparel plants. In 1986 she began working…