The Iowa supreme court overruled a lower court in the case of an employee in for a rural water district in Iowa who was injured after shaking his derriere as a greeting to a fellow employee.
The lower court had ruled that Norman Vegars was ineligible for workers compensation on the grounds that he was engaging in horseplay at work. Vegars waved his butt as a greeting to his coworker, Casey Byrd, and Byrd attempted to return the unusual greeting by bumping the booty with his truck window. Unfortunately, he was off the mark and somehow smacked Vegars in the backside with his truck bed, leading to the workers compensation claim.
While the Iowa supreme court did not rule in favor of Vegars, the court did overturn the initial ruling against him and sent the case back to the workers compensation board to determine whether the butt-shaking activity should be considered in line with the course of his employment.
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