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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 859
    INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION v. BARBER
    Ohio Supreme Court
    No. 20444.
    Decided Nov. 30, 1927.
    1283. W O R K M E N’S COMPENSATION LAW. — 1. Zone of employment not limited to enclosure of employer.
    2. Hazards of outside zone are compensable out of Compensation Fund.
   1. An employe, who for the purpose of reaching his place of employment travels a course which affords the only unobstructed access thereto, enters the course of his employment within the contemplation of the Workmen’s Compensation Law, when he reaches -the zone of such employment that is under the control of his employer, even though such zone be outside the enclosure of the employer.

2. The hazards of such zone growing out ■of the conditions and environments of the employment, and an injury received by an employes due to such hazards is compensable out of the industrial insurance fund of the Workmen’s Compensation Law.

Judgment affirmed.

(Marshall, CJ., Day, Allen and Matthias, JJ., concur.)