Supreme Court allows work accident claim when employee performs employer-ordered tasks outside normal duties.

The Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's dismissal of a work accident claim, ruling that the employee's actions constituted a work-related event. The employee, after being excused from regular duties for medical tests, was ordered by his supervisor to perform yard fencing work using equipment not typically assigned to him. The court held that performing tasks ordered by a superior, even if outside the employee's standard job description, does not sever the connection to employment if done in the employer's interest.