Hoch v. Hansen

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed July 19, 1984.

Claimant is the widow of decedent Ronald Hoch, who was employed as a general farm laborer at the employer’s 90-cow dairy farm. Rather than providing room and board privileges, the employer paid a weekly salary of $200 to decedent and arranged to release him each morning between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. to return to his home, some three miles distant from the place of employment, for a “lunch break”. The normal hours of employment were from approximately 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., unless special circumstances required…