Injury on lunch break while doing unauthorized work still compensable

Worker didn’t ask to use machine or if he should do the task but it met the requirements to be considered in the course of employment

An Ontario worker is entitled to health care benefits for an injury suffered at work, even though the injury occurred while the worker was performing an unauthorized task on a machine for which he wasn’t formally trained during his lunch break, the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal has ruled.

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