In United Parcel Service v. Fetterman, 230 Va. 257, 336 S.E.2d 892 (1985), a deliveryman injured his back when he raised his foot onto the back of his truck and bent to tie his shoe. The Supreme Court held that there was no causal connection between his injury and the conditions under which the work was to be performed. An injury which "comes from a hazard to which the employee would have been exposed equally apart from the employment," is not compensable. Id. at 258, 336 S.E.2d at 893. Because everyone with laced shoes must bend down to tie them, the claimant's injury was not peculiar to the requirements of his employment.