Warner v. Vanco Manufacturing, Inc.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

EICHEN, J.A.D.

In this workers’ compensation case, respondent Vaneo Manufacturing, Inc., appeals from a judgment awarding medical and temporary benefits to petitioner Jeffrey Warner. We affirm.

Petitioner was injured on July 28, 1994 when he fell from a narrow, eighteen-foot high scaffold in the course of assembling a metal roof on a tractor trailer. Respondent sought to resist petitioner’s claim on the statutory ground that intoxication was the natural and proximate cause of the accident. N.J.S.A. 34:15-7. The judge of compensation concluded that…