Montgomery Ward & Co. v. Malinen

Employer appeals from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming the referee’s decision that claimant’s injury is compensable. We affirm.

Claimant is a 57-year-old woman. On January 6, 1982, she slipped on an ice-covered sidewalk which ran in front of employer’s Astoria catalog store and its adjacent parking lot. The fall seriously injured her right leg. At the time of the accident, she was a freight clerk in the store and had been so employed since 1969. Her duties included work at the counter.

Claimant had learned on the evening of January 5, after leaving work, that she was to…