The Illinois Appellate Court upheld an award of benefits for a production worker’s injury from a fall while wearing sandals to walk to an employee break room to charge his phone.
Shawn Anderson worked as a machine operator for Ice Cream Specialties Inc., an ice cream manufacturer.
He clocked in for work on Oct. 3, 2022, while wearing open-toed, slip-on sandals.
He went to his locker and took out his work boots, but he did not put them on. He then went to the bathroom and returned to his locker, at which point he noticed that his cellphone was about to lose its charge.
Rather th...
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