Adamson v. Dalles Cherry Growers, Inc.

The issue in this worker’s compensation case is compensability. Both the referee and the Workers’ Compensation Board found claimant’s injury — a fall on an icy street outside her place of employment — non-compensable. We affirm.

At the time of her injury, claimant had been employed as a general laborer by respondent for eight years. On the morning of January 15, 1980, she went to work as usual. There had been a severe snow storm in the area, and the streets were covered with snow and ice. Upon arriving at work she found the employe parking lot filled with snow and the place where she usually…