Hust v. North Dakota Workers Compensation Bureau

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1]Kevin Hust appealed from a judgment affirming a Workers Compensation Bureau decision denying him benefits. We conclude the Bureau’s findings Hust was substantially impaired by his voluntary consumption of alcohol when he was injured and his alcohol-induced impairment was a cause of the injury are supported by a preponderance of the evidence, and we affirm.

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[¶ 2]Hust and Clint Ennen were over-the-road truck drivers employed by Moos Trucking in Bismarck. It was snowing on the morning of January 17,1996, when Hust and Ennen left Bismarck to drive a truckload of lumber to…