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What is the name of your state? Johnson Atoll
I just ran across this and got a great laugh out of it. Thought I'd share.
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Barroom injuries are a foreseeable consequence of sending employees to boring destinations, at least according to a recent decision from the U.S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The court upheld an award of disability benefits to Hawaii resident Michael Ilaszczat for injuries he received as a result of a barroom bet he made while assigned to Johnston Atoll for business. The atoll is a two-mile-long chemical and nuclear arms dump located about 700 miles west of Hawaii.
Faced with little to do while dispatched to the isolated U.S. possession, Ilaszczat frequented a local social club and bet a group of U.S. soldiers that one of them could not perform a high-kick without touching him. Ilaszczat won the bet when a soldier’s attempt left him kicked to the ground and in need of an artificial hip.
Kalama Services Inc., the employer which sent Ilaszczat to the island, opted to fire him after the incident led the U.S. military commander to bar Ilaszczat from Johnston Atoll. But an administrative board and judge decided that paying for Ilaszczat’s artificial hip was a better course of action, given that its lack of entertainment makes Johnston Atoll a "zone of special danger." The 9th Circuit agreed, reasoning that "horseplay of [this] type" is the risk employers take when they send employees to such dull destinations.
I just ran across this and got a great laugh out of it. Thought I'd share.
Betting on Disability
Barroom injuries are a foreseeable consequence of sending employees to boring destinations, at least according to a recent decision from the U.S Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
The court upheld an award of disability benefits to Hawaii resident Michael Ilaszczat for injuries he received as a result of a barroom bet he made while assigned to Johnston Atoll for business. The atoll is a two-mile-long chemical and nuclear arms dump located about 700 miles west of Hawaii.
Faced with little to do while dispatched to the isolated U.S. possession, Ilaszczat frequented a local social club and bet a group of U.S. soldiers that one of them could not perform a high-kick without touching him. Ilaszczat won the bet when a soldier’s attempt left him kicked to the ground and in need of an artificial hip.
Kalama Services Inc., the employer which sent Ilaszczat to the island, opted to fire him after the incident led the U.S. military commander to bar Ilaszczat from Johnston Atoll. But an administrative board and judge decided that paying for Ilaszczat’s artificial hip was a better course of action, given that its lack of entertainment makes Johnston Atoll a "zone of special danger." The 9th Circuit agreed, reasoning that "horseplay of [this] type" is the risk employers take when they send employees to such dull destinations.
