Noeline Virtu suffered an injury to her right wrist on 23 July 2014 when she tripped in a pothole in a dark laneway on her way to work with Greenacres Disability Services. Ms Virtu says that she suffered the injury because she was required to walk down the laneway to catch a bus from her home at Koonawarra to meet the “Greenacres bus” at Unanderra which would take her to work. Greenacres disputes Ms Virtu’s claim because she was injured whilst on a journey to work and there was no “real and substantial connection” between her employment and the injury in accordance with s10(3A) of the Workers Compensation Act 1987 (the 1987 Act). Ms Virtu claims weekly payments of compensation of $41.30 per week from 23 July 2014 to 5 November 2014 and from 12 January 2015 to 6 March 2015 and medical expenses, and the NSW Workers Compensation Commission agrees.
