Vickers v. Missouri Department of Public Safety

HAROLD L. LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

I. Introduction

Barbara Vickers (Vickers) appeals the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission (Commission) denying her compensation under Chapter 287, the Workers’ Compensation Act, for a claimed occupational injury. Vickers asserts that the Commission erred in affirming the Administrative Law Judge’s (ALJ) determination that she failed to establish a causal connection between her work cleaning laundry for residents at the Missouri Veterans Home and her contraction of a bacterium, Clostridium difficile. Vickers claims the Commission’s decision is…