Court Opinion

ID: 9619377
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:27:05.293287+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:11:47.875588
License: Public Domain

Sam Bird, Judge, concurring. I agree that the Commission should be affirmed because substantial evidence exists to support its finding that appellant was not performing employment services when he was injured. I write separately because I am unable to agree with the majority opinion’s assertion that “the removal of the waste by appellant may have advanced appellee’s interests, at least indirectly . . . .” I find nothing in the record that supports even the suggestion that appellee’s interests were advanced by appellant’s removal of the waste. For all practical purposes, appellant’s workday was over because there was not sufficient time remaining to perform any significant employment tasks. Instead, appellant pulled his personal truck onto appellee’s property, used appellee’s equipment to load his truck with waste material that appellee gratuitously permitted appellant to remove, and was injured in the process. If anything, appellant’s use of the appellee’s time and equipment for personal gain was adverse to appellee’s interests.