Pacher v. Fairdale Farms

Appellant Fairdale Farms appeals a decision by the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor and Industry ordering Fairdale to resume payment of workers’ compensation benefits once appellee Eveready Battery Company’s responsibility for a subsequent injury ends. We affirm.

In November 1977, claimant Joseph Paeher fell off a roof while working for Fairdale, rupturing his spleen and fracturing several vertebrae and two left ribs. Fairdale paid workers’ compensation benefits during claimant’s convalescence and following his employment with Eveready Battery Company in 1978. In August 1992,…