Plunkett v. Jones

STEINFELD, Judge.

Appellees, Jones Brothers, were engaged in what is sometimes known as “custom farming”. Their employees went from farm to farm and performed certain specified farming tasks such as baling hay and picking corn. Jones Brothers supplied machinery and manpower to perform these tasks. Appellant, Plunkett, one of its employees, suffered severe injury to his hand while he was operating a mechanical corn picking machine which he says is a type of threshing machine. He filed a claim for benefits with the Workmen’s Compensation Board, but his application was dismissed on the ground…