McKay Dee Hospital v. Industrial Commission ( 1979 )

CROCKETT, Chief Justice

(concurring with additional comment):

I agree with the main opinion and with its analysis and conclusion that Mr. Spack-man’s injury was not accidental. I think it appropriate to make this additional comment about the finding of the Commission that the injury was not self-inflicted. Notwithstanding the statutory interdiction against this Court’s reviewing the findings of fact, it is a fundamental concept of justice that there can be no valid finding of fact unless there is a reasonable basis in the evidence to support it.¹ The undisputed evidence here would permit no other finding than that the injury was self-inflicted, and therefore, for that added reason it was not compensable, as expressly provided the statute.

STEWART, J., dissents.

1 . See Spring Canyon Coal Co. v. Ind. Comm., main opinion, footnote 2; Russell v. Ind. Comm., 86 Utah 306, 43 P.2d 1069 (1935).