1998 Ohio 633
Ohio
1998

FALKE, APPELLANT, v. CUBBY DRILLING, INC. ET AL., APPELLEES.

No. 97-1535

Supreme Court of Ohio

Submitted February 4, 1998—Decided March 11, 1998

81 Ohio St.3d 197 | 1998-Ohio-633

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Stark County, No. 1996CA00346.

Workers’ compensation—Employee injured in traffic accident during travel home from remote well drilling site—Determining whether employee is a fixed-situs employee and therefore within the coming-and-going rule—Fixed-situs employee entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries occurring while coming and going from or to his place of employment, when.

Ronald E. Slipski; Green, Haines, Sgambati, Murphy & Macala Co., L.P.A., and Elizabeth M. Phillips, for appellant.

Garvin & Hickey, LLC, Michael J. Hickey and Preston J. Garvin, for appellee Cubby Drilling, Inc.

{¶ 1} The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the authority of Ruckman v. Cubby Drilling, Inc. (1998), 81 Ohio St.3d 117, ___ N.E.2d ___.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER, COOK and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.