O'BRIANT v. Daniel Construction Company

This is a worker’s compensation case in which Daniel Construction Company, employer, and Fidelity and Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, carrier, appeal the award of death benefits to respondents, wife and daughters of the deceased, James L. O’Briant. We affirm.

The basic facts are not in dispute. O’Briant applied for employment with Daniel Construction at the company’s Columbia Nitrogen job site in Augusta, Georgia. He was not offered a job at the time, but was later contacted by the company’s office manager, Fred Hunt. From Augusta, Hunt telephoned O’Briant at his home in Belvedere, South…