Leo Polehn Orchards v. Hernandez

At issue in this case is whether claimant’s injury arose out of and in the course of her employment. The Workers’ Compensation Board found that it did. Employer seeks review of that decision. We affirm.

Claimant and her husband are migrant farm workers who were hired to work for employer in one of its cherry orchards located near The Dalles. Employer offered its workers temporary housing at a migrant labor camp on the premises. Although employer did not contractually require all of its workers to live in the camp, the vast majority of them lived there, due to an absence of available housing in…