Spleen v. Rogers Group, Inc.

BARFIELD, Justice.

The claimant appeals a workers’ compensation order finding that an injury resulting from an assault on the job site by a co-worker was not compensable. We reverse.

The claimant, a laborer at a construction site, sometimes rode with the co-worker (Kirkland) on payday to cash his check and they occasionally bought each other lunch or had a beer together. It was common on the job for men to borrow a few dollars from one another for lunch or gas and the claimant owed Kirkland ten dollars.

On the day of the assault, the claimant took his lunch on the job site with Randall, a heavy…