Cain v. Industrial Commission

PHELPS, Chief Justice.

By certiorari petitioner seeks to set aside an award of the respondent Industrial Commission based upon an injury she claims she suffered as an employee of St. Luke’s Hospital on April 4, 1958, by accident arising out of and in the course of her employment.

Petitioner was employed by the St. Luke’s Hospital as a general helper. While standing on a box in the kitchen beside the kitchen sink, reaching above her head washing tile above the sink the box on which she was standing tipped as a result of some movement of another employee to her left who was washing pans. This…