Olsen v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The State Accident Insurance Fund appeals from an order of the circuit court reversing the Workmen’s Compensation Board and holding that claimant’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment.

Claimant was injured in a bicycle accident on the employer’s premises during the regular lunch break. The circumstances were these: Claimant had undertaken to repair a co-worker’s bicycle during the break. In order to locate the problem he decided to test-ride the cycle around the employer’s warehouse. In the course of the ride the front wheel of the cycle suddenly became lodged in a gap…