Kelsey v. Drushella-Klohk NCE

Claimant seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board in this consolidated proceeding to determine whether Duane Drushella and Joan Klohk-Drushella (respondents) are noncomplying employers and whether claimant’s claim is compensable. ORS 656.740(4).

Claimant was injured when he fell from the roof of a house that he was remodeling for respondents, who had purchased the house as a vacation home. Although respondents had never lived in the house at the time claimant was injured, they had rented it to a third party on one occasion, in payment for that party’s cabinetry work.

After…