Illinois: Worker’s Injury in Fall From Rolling Chair Did not Arise From His Employment

The state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission did not err when it found that an employee’s alleged injury did not arise out of his employment where it appeared the employee fell from a rolling chair when he reached for a pen that he had dropped on the floor and the chair slid out from under him. The Commission found that no work-related task had contributed to his injury and that the risk from falling from a chair while reaching to the floor was one which claimant would have been equally exposed to apart from his work for the employer. The court stressed that there was no evidence that the chair or any part of the employer’s premises was defective or would have contributed to the injury.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is the co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

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See Noonan v. Illinois Workers’ Comp. Comm’n, 2016 IL App (1st) 152300WC, 2016 Ill. App. LEXIS 724 (Oct. 21, 2016)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 3.03.

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law