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Plaintiff appealed the denial of his claim for workers’ compensation benefits for a COVID-19 infection and alleged resulting disabilities from his employer. Plaintiff argued that the commission erred in its decision that plaintiff could not determine a “specific source” of COVID-19 at his workplace and in determining that plaintiff’s infection did not arise in the course of his employment because there was nothing unique about his job that would place him at risk for infection.
Where the record supported finding that none of plaintiff’s job duties involved risk of exposure to COVID-19 above that of the general population, plaintiff was properly denied workers’ compensation benefits where he could not establish that his infection occurred at work.
Judgment is affirmed.
Johnson v. RBX Transportation (MLW No. 83937/Case No. SD38724 – 16 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Hamner, J.) Appealed from the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission. (Randy Charles Alberhasky, Springfield for appellant) (Patricia L. Musick, Springfield; Sheila Barrett Skulborstad, Springfield; and Jay B. Umansky, St. Louis for respondents)