Going & Coming Ruled in Favor of Farm Workers

On August 9, 1999 13 tomato pickers killed and 2 seriously injured in a crash returning home from a day of work. On Friday the WCAB issued a decision awarding death benefits to the dependents of those killed and benefits to the 2 survivors, ruling that the situation was exempt from the going and coming rule. The workers were headed home in the early morning of 8/9/99 when their van, owned and operated by their employer, Green Valley Ag, a farm labor contractor, slammed into a big-rig truck that was making an illegal turn, killing all but two of the tomato pickers. Green Valley Ag, was contrac...