Claim of Peckham v. Peckham Materials Corp.

— Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation *894Board, filed October 29, 1987, which ruled that claimant’s decedent did not sustain an accident during the course of his employment and denied claimant’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits.

On May 29, 1981, John Peckham, president and board chairman of the employer, Peckham Materials Corporation, had been on a golf outing. After leaving the other players, Peckham was killed when the company-owned helicopter carrying him crashed. Responding to the tort action thereafter brought by his widow against the employer, the…