Haas v. Kansas City Light & Power Co.

Citations

• 109 Kan. 197
• 198 P. 174
• 1921 Kan. LEXIS 107

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Compensation Act — Injury to an Oiler of Machinery — Accident Did Not Arise Out of and in Course of His Employment. A workman, employed as a night oiler of machinery in an electrical power house, whose only duties were to oil certain engines and pumps in one part of the building, left his work and went a distance of 25 or 30 feet to a narrow •entrance leading into a room where he knew he had no business to be, and which was filled with electrical machinery dangerous to life, but which contained nothing that required thé services of an oiler. While in the room he reached with his hand about 8 inches into a recessed place in the wall and came in contact with electrical appliances and received serious injuries. Held, that his injuries did not result from an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, and that he is not entitled to recover under the workmen’s compensation act.</p>