Skillin v. Magna Corp./Greene's Tree Service, Inc.

HUDSON, Judge.

Defendants appeal from an opinion and award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the “Commission”) giving workers’ compensation benefits to Regina Skillin (“plaintiff’) as the adminis-tratrix of the estate of James Stanley Burgess (“Burgess” or “decedent”). We affirm.

Relevant to this appeal are the following facts, as found by the Commission. Decedent was a “self-employed independent contractor” who performed tree climbing and other logging services for Greene’s Tree Service, Inc. (“Greene’s”). Greene’s leased employees and subcontractors to Magna Corporation (“Magna”).…