Hamilton v. Department of Labor & Industries

(dissenting) — I dissent. In 1959 and 1960 when management and labor “mutually agreed that industrial insurance coverage should be extended to employees going and coming from their actual work site,” they did so because employees were not then covered while going and coming on the premises controlled by the employer.

The status of the law was exemplified by our holding in West v. Mount Vernon Sand & Gravel, Inc., 56 Wn.2d 752, 355 P.2d 795 (1960) when we said that employment begins when a workman commences to earn his pay, and not earlier. The facts in West were that plaintiff arrived at his…