Split Court Says Worker's Trip and Fall at Work was Compensable

A divided South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that a social services worker who was injured when she tripped while walking down a carpeted hallway at her office did not suffer a compensable injury.While Carolyn Nicholson was clearly in the course of her employment at the time she fell, a majority of the court concluded that her injuries did not arise from her employment. The majority said the carpet which had allegedly snagged Nicholson's foot was "not a hazard, a special condition, or peculiar to her employment," and the only connection between her work and her injury was the fact that ...