Blank v. US Bank

This workers’ compensation case involves a claimant who fell while on her employer’s premises and sustained injuries. The Workers’ Compensation Board upheld employer’s denial of her claim, and claimant seeks review. The issue is whether the board erred in concluding that claimant’s fall was not compensable because it did not “aris[e] out of” a risk of her employment. ORS 656.005(7)(a) (a “compensable injury” is one “arising out of and in the course of employment”); Phil A. Livesley Co. v. Russ, 296 Or 25, 30, 672 P2d 337 (1983). We review the board’s order for substantial evidence and errors…