Jackson v. Tillamook Growers Co-Op

Claimant appeals an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board affirming a referee’s determination that claimant is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits under the Oregon law on account of injuries claimant sustained while in California. Both the Board and the referee concluded that claimant, a long-haul truck driver, was based in California and thus did not fall within the ambit of ORS 656.126(1), which provides:

"If a worker employed in this state and subject to ORS 656.001 to 656.794 temporarily leaves the state incidental to that employment and receives an accidental injury arising…