Mensah v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board

COLINS, President Judge.

Carolyn Mensah petitions for review of the order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board reversing a workers’ compensation judge’s award of benefits. The Board concluded that Mensah failed to prove that she suffered a work-related injury in the course and scope of her employment.

In August 1992, Mensah’s employer, Nor-rell Temp Agency, assigned her to work for the American Red Cross. Mensah claims that she was injured on August 6, 1992 during the course of her employment when she drank a cup of coffee that had been tainted with a barbiturate. Specifically, Mensah…