A United Airlines Flight attendant is awarded benefits for dislocated shoulder
A United Airlines Flight attendant’s act of taking her jacket off and putting it back on during a long, out-of-town delay between flights, is both reasonable and foreseeable conduct as a traveling employee. Therefore, an injury sustained while putting on her jacket arises out of and in the course of her employment.
A Commission majority awarded temporary total disability, permanent partial disability and medical expenses to an airlines employee who injured her shoulder while putting on her jacket in the employee lounge. The majority concluded that the claimant was a traveling employee, and that under the traveling employee analysis, she established that she sustained a compensable accident. The majority further found that the claimant’s condition was causally related to the accident.
A flight attendant’s act of taking her jacket off and putting it back on during a long, out-of-town delay between flights is both reasonable and forseeable conduct as a traveling employee. Therefore, an injury sustained while putting on her jacket as the conclusion of her delay arises out of and in the course of her employment.
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