Anderson Clayton & Co. v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

JACOBSON, Judge.

The sole issue presented in this review of an award of the Industrial Commission is whether the injuries sustained by the claimant while engaged in “horseplay” are industrially compensable.

The facts are not in material dispute.

Petitioner employer, Anderson Clayton & Company, which operates a cotton gin, hired respondent employee, Danny W. Graves, as a janitor to work from 12:00 midnight to 8:00 A.M. It assigned Graves to work in a shed called the lint room. Prior to this assignment, Graves was not instructed regarding his duties, warned of dangerous conditions, or…