Claim of Flamholtz v. Byrde, Richards & Pound, Inc.

Appeal from a decision of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, filed March 6, 1970. Claimant, a secretary, left the office on her lunch break to cash her bimonthly salary check at a bank about two blocks away. She planned to extend her lunch hour about 15 minutes so that the check cashing procedure could be accomplished. On the way to the bank she slipped, injuring her coccyx and buttocks. The board found that “at the time claimant fell and injured herself on February 29, 1968, she was using extra time permitted" to cash her pay cheek and that the incident came within the scope of the…