2006 South Dakota Code - 62-4-54 — Determining usual and customary line of employment.

     62-4-54.   Determining usual and customary line of employment. Usual and customary line of employment is to be determined by evaluation of the following factors:
             (1)      The skills or abilities of the person;
             (2)      The length of time the person spent in the type of work engaged in at the time of the injury;
             (3)      The proportion of time the person has spent in the type of work engaged in at the time of injury when compared to the employee's entire working career; and
             (4)      The duties and responsibilities of the person at the workplace. It is not limited by the position held at the time of the injury.

Source: SL 1994, ch 396, § 10.

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