Opinion ID: 1399462
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Misapplication of the Doctrines

Text: Relying on language in Cash, supra , Mr. Johnson urges that his activities for the Farm were separate from those for Bonds Fertilizer and that, on the day of the accident, his activities could be separately identified with the Farm. For that reason, he claims, none of the four doctrines examined by the ALJ were applicable to the facts of his case. Bonds urges that under the undisputed facts of the case, Mr. Johnson was a loaned or temporary employee of the Farm at the time of the accident. In Cash, supra , quoting Daniels, supra , we said: Employment may also be dual in the sense that, while the employee is under contract of hire with two different employers, his activities on behalf of each employer are separate and can be identified with one employer or the other. When this separate identification can clearly be made, the particular employer whose work was being done at the time of injury will be held exclusively liable. 312 Ark. at 46, 847 S.W.2d at 20 (quoting Daniels, 310 Ark. at 759, 840 S.W.2d at 178). In this case, the ALJ found that it [was] clear from the evidence that Johnson worked for both the fertilizer business and the farm on a regular basis and shifted from one to the other on an as-needed basis.... The instant case is clearly distinguishable from the cases in which the court has found that the claimant was an employee of two employers, but the work was separable. Again, a review of the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commission, as already set forth above, reveals that there was substantial evidence to support the Commission's decision that Mr. Johnson's activities at the time of the accident were not separately identifiable for either employer. Mr. Johnson had the same supervisor for both jobs; was working for the Farm, but was also to work on fertilizer jobs that day; and was paid by Bonds Fertilizer for his work that week. Hence, we affirm the Commission on this point.