Pickett v. Industrial Commission

OPINION

EUBANK, Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether the cost of installing a fourteen by twenty-four foot swimming pool, a heating unit for the pool, and a chain-link fence should be paid by the respondent employer as therapy expense when the employer neither authorized nor was informed in advance concerning the proposed purchase and construction.

Petitioner’s back and left leg were injured in an industrial accident on September 30, 1970, while she was employed at a grocery store. She was knocked to the floor when another employee, pushing a cart of milk crates through swinging…