Blanks v. Oak Ridge Nursing Home

Relator, a nurse’s aide who sustained injury in a fall on a boulevard adjacent to a frontage road in front of her employer’s nursing home while coming to work, seeks review of a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals denying her compensation on the ground that her injury did not arise out of and in the course of her employment. We affirm.

Although we have recognized exceptions to the so-called “premises requirement” set forth in Minn.St. 176.011, subd. 16, this case does not come within any of them. Relator fell on a public boulevard. As in Satack v. State, Dept. of Public…