Claim of Williams v. Van Derzee

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed April 18, 1991, which, inter alia, ruled that the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation was a general contractor for the timber services that claimant was engaged in when he was injured and that it was liable for claimant’s injuries.

In the summer of 1988, the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (hereinafter OPRHP) entered into an oral contract with claimant’s employer to remove some trees in Lodi Point State Park in Seneca County. While engaged in this work on September 25, 1988, claimant,…