Lake v. Reeder Construction Co.

ANDERSON, Judge:

In this Workers’ Compensation case, the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Uninsured Employers’ Fund (the Fund) appeals the Circuit Court’s affirmance of the Workers’ Compensation Commission’s order awarding benefits to James Lake (Lake) and holding he was an employee of Reeder Construction Company on the date of his injury. We affirm. 1

FACTSIPROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1983, Billy Ray Reeder, owner of Reeder Construction Company, hired Lake to work as a carpenter. According to Reeder, he considered Lake his foreman and “righthand [sic] man.” In November of 1993, Reeder…