The defendants' petition for certification for appeal was granted, limited to the following issue: "Was the Appellate Court correct in deciding that [the] scope of employment under General Statutes 31-275 includes a domestic preparatory activity where the commissioner had concluded that the sole reason the decedent was shoveling snow in his driveway was to enable him to exit his driveway to visit customers?" Tovish v. Gerber Electronics, 227 Conn. 930, 632 A.2d 707 (1993). The Appellate Court described the facts found by the compensation commissioner. "The decedent, Richard Tovish, was employed by Gerber Electronics as an `outside salesman.' Gerber Electronics has no office or place of business in Connecticut; its principal place of business is in Norwood, Massachusetts. The decedent maintained an office in the basement of his house in Monroe, which he used exclusively for Gerber business.