Claim of Oord v. Estate of Zielinski

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed May 19, 1997, as amended by decision filed November 3, 1997, which ruled that Alexander H. Zielinski was a contractor pursuant to Workers’ Compensation Law § 56.

Claimant was injured while working on a 52-acre parcel of land owned by the estate of Alexander H. Zielinski (hereinafter decedent) in the Town of Rotterdam, Schenectady County. Claimant was employed by David Subik, who was logging timber on the parcel. On July 29, 1992, while logging a tree, claimant was struck by a falling log and received a compound fracture to his…