Stricker v. Children's Mercy Hospital

Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) appeals the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) awarding Ms. Charity Strieker workers’ compensation benefits for an injury suffered from a fall caused by her work shoes. The Commission determined that Ms. Strieker’s injury was work related be-' cause her work shoes caused her to fall and that she would not have been equally exposed to the risk — wearing those shoes — in her normal non-employment life because she did not wear her work shoes outside of work. CMH contends this decision was erroneous: (1) because the Commission…