Key legal question
Whether the heel fracture was an assimilated bodily injury under Art. 9(2)(a) OLAA
Extracted holding
Yes. The violent impact against the floor was an external factor that triggered the fracture, and the injury was not manifestly attributable to disease or degeneration.
Extracted reasoning
A bodily injury may be assimilated to an accident even if a pre-existing weakness contributes, so long as an external trigger is identifiable and the injury is not manifestly degenerative. The voluntary movement did not negate the external cause; only the bodily harm, not the movement, need be unintended.