Wilkie v. Travelers Insurance

Eberhardt, Judge.

In this workmen’s compensation case claimant was injured in a fall while on her way to the restroom on the employer’s premises during a ten-minute rest break. The em ployer had scheduled, by department, two ten-minute rest breaks each workday, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. A buzzer sounding throughout the location signaled the commencement and end of each break. The breaks were "personal time” and during this period the employees were free to do whatever they wished, including leaving the premises, so long as they were back at their work station at the end of…