Hayes v. Gibson Hart Co.

LEIBSON, Justice.

This is a workers' compensation case. The issue, broadly defined, is whether the employee’s injury qualifies as an “injury” covered under KRS 342.0011(1), which is a “work-related harmful change in the human organism, arising out of and in the course of employment.” Narrowly defined, the issue is whether the place where the employee was injured should be classified as part of the “operating premises” of his employer included within the coverage *776of the workers’ compensation law even though the employee is in a “going and coming” status. Cf. Ratliff v. Epling, Ky., 401 S.W.2d…