Cirame's Case

Decree affirmed. The employee was a truck driver who found himself locked in his employer’s building at the end of a day’s work. He tried several doors without success and finally noticed an open window with a ledge below it on the second floor. Stepping through the window and down onto the ledge, he proceeded to hang from the ledge by his hands and drop to the ground. He landed hard on his heels and sustained severe fractures of both ankles. The single member found that while the employee may have demonstrated poor judgment, he had been of the opinion that he had only a four foot *784jump to…