Saylor v. Black & Decker Manufacturing Co.

This case involves denial of a workmen’s compensation claim by an employee who was injured on his way to work. The Workmen’s Compensation Commission determined that because the injury occurred on a parking lot access road it was not an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. The Circuit Court for Carroll County (Weant, J.) affirmed this ruling on the ground that because the employee had not yet reached the parking lot he had not arrived at the work “premises.”

On July 18, 1968 the appellant James D. Saylor was being driven to work by a co-worker, Russell Groomes, one half…