J & W Janitorial Co. v. Industrial Commission

HOWE, Justice:

J & W Janitorial Company seeks the reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission which found it liable for death benefits of an employee who was killed in an accident occurring on the premises where he worked. The controlling issue is whether the deceased employee was killed in an accident which arose out of or in the course of his employment.

Although he had worked for J & W Janitorial previously, on the night of his death the deceased employee, Jeffrey Matthew Tilt, was filling in for another member of a three-man crew who cleaned a bakery. Among the machines they cleaned…