Burroughs v. Empire State Agricultural Compensation Trust

Crew III, J.P.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed August 5, 2002, which ruled that claimant was a covered employee under the Workers’ Compensation Law.

Claimant, a dairy farmer, sustained certain work-related injuries in November 2001 when he fell from a ladder while working on a farm. A claim for workers’ compensation benefits was thereafter filed on claimant’s behalf, which the workers’ compensation carrier duly controverted. At the conclusion of the brief hearing that followed in May 2002, a Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) found that the…