Central State Hospital v. Wiggers

The sole question in this workers’ compensation appeal is whether there was evidence to support the Industrial Commission’s finding that the claimant had sustained an injury by accident arising out of her employment.

Brenda Fay Wiggers was employed as a clerk at Central State Hospital. On August 2, 1983, she arose from her desk and walked toward an adjoining office, a distance of about ten steps, to answer a telephone. She testified: “[J]ust before I went to grab for the phone, my ankle, the right ankle twisted .... It just turned over.”

The claimant did not testify that she slipped, tripped,…