Johme v. St. John's Mercy Healthcare

MARY R. RUSSELL, Judge.

This case addresses whether the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission properly applied section 287.020.3(2)1 in awarding workers’ compensation benefits to an employee who was injured in an office kitchen after making coffee. The employee turned and twisted her ankle, causing her foot to fall off her shoe.

This Court finds that the employee was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to show that her injury arose out of and in the course of her employment as specified by section 287.020.3(2). The Commission’s decision is reversed for the…