Becton, Dickinson & Co. v. Industrial Commission

This appeal seeks a declaration entitling an employee to participate in the workmen’s compensation fund for injuries received in the public street separating the employer’s premises (i. e. the plant) and the employees’ parking lot provided by the employer for the employees’ optional use. We decline to so declare. Our analysis follows.

The employer-plaintiff-appellee, Becton, Dickinson & Company, in 1971, provided a parldng lot for the optional use of its employees. Walnut Street, a public street in Coshocton, separated the employee parking lot and the en trance to the employer’s plant. On…