Benavides v. Eastern New Mexico Medical Center

OPINION

MAES, Justice.

When a worker’s injury “results from the negligence of the employer in failing to supply reasonable safety devices in general use for the- use or protection of the worker,” the Workers’ Compensation Act (the Act) provides that a worker’s benefits shall be increased by 10%.NMSA 1978, §§ 52-1-1 to -70 (1929, as amended through 2013)-. In this case we determine whether a “wet floor”-sign is a safety device and whether a nurse who slips on a recently mopped floor at work is entitled to a 10% increase in benefits when a “wet floor” sign was not posted near the mopped floor. We…