The Commonwealth Court has upheld a workers’ compensation judge’s ruling that a flight attendant who slipped and fell while aboard an airport shuttle bus was injured during the course of her duties.

A three-judge panel consisting of Judges P. Kevin Brobson, Michael H. Wojcik, and J. Wesley Oler Jr. rejected US Airways’ argument that because the airline did not own the shuttle bus and flight attendant Betty Bockelman was injured outside of her shift hours, she wasn’t in the scope of her employment at the time.

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