MATTER OF WILLIAMS

S-17-0142.

409 P.3d 1219 (2018)

2018 WY 10

In the MATTER OF the Worker's Compensation Claim of Richard R. WILLIAMS. State of Wyoming, ex rel., Department of Workforce Services, Workers' Compensation Division, Appellant (Respondent), v. Richard R. Williams, Appellee (Petitioner).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

February 5, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Representing Appellant: Peter K. Michael , Wyoming Attorney General; Daniel E. White , Deputy Attorney General; J.C. DeMers , Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Benjamin Eliazar Fischer , Assistant Attorney General.

Representing Appellee: Larry B. Jones of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardin, P.C., Cody, WY.

Before BURKE, C.J., and HILL, DAVIS, FOX, and KAUTZ, JJ.


[¶ 1] Richard Williams suffered a head injury while working as a well operator and applied for workers' compensation benefits. In Mr. Williams' version of events, a flash fire startled him and caused him to fall backward and strike his head. Because the building in which Mr. Williams was working when he suffered his injury showed...

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