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Case Review Zhang is an employee of a certain company. On February 8, 2014, Zhang left his post at the security guard station without permission for personal reasons and rode a bicycle outside. On his way back to the unit, he was involved in a traffic accident and died on the spot (the traffic police determined that Zhang was not at fault in this accident). Afterward, Zhang’s family submitted an application for work-related injury recognition to the local social insurance administration department. After conducting an investigation, the department decided not to recognize Zhang’s injury as a work-related one, in accordance with items (5) and (6) of Article 14 of the Work-Related Injury Insurance Regulations. Zhang’s family was not satisfied and filed an application for administrative reconsideration with the local people’s ** authority. The administrative reconsideration body there upheld the decision made by the social insurance administration department to deny recognition of the injury as a work-related injury. Case Analysis: Article 14, Paragraph (5) of the Regulations on Work-related Injury Insurance stipulates that injuries sustained by employees while on business trips due to work-related reasons, or situations in which they go missing as a result of an accident, can be considered work-related injuries. Article 14, Paragraph (6) of the same regulations specifies that injuries incurred by employees during their commutes, as a result of traffic accidents or accidents involving urban rail transit, passenger ferries, or trains, provided that the employees are not primarily at fault, can also be regarded as work-related injuries. In this case, although Zhang was found to be without fault by the traffic police in the traffic accident, the fact that he left his post without permission during working hours and thus caused the accident resulting in death does not meet either of the requirements specified in Article 14, items (5) and (6), of the Regulations on Work-related Injury Insurance, namely \"during a business trip\" or \"on the way to or from work\". In summary, the local social insurance administration department’s decision not to recognize Zhang’s injury as a work-related injury is in accordance with legal provisions.