CITRUS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL v. CABRERA

No. RR-136.

388 So.2d 345 (1980)

CITRUS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Appellants, v. Violette Denise CABRERA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Pingel, Jr., of Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, Tampa, for appellants.

Frank C. Amatea, Ocala, for appellee.


McCORD, Judge.

Appellants, employer/carrier, appeal from a workers' compensation order which found that appellee suffered a compensable accident. We affirm.

Appellee, a registered nurse, fractured her right wrist while using the restroom facilities at work when her right foot slipped and she fell on the commode, breaking her fall with her right hand. Appellants contested her claim for compensation, asserting that her injury did not arise out

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