Personal Injury & Torts
May 4, 2006
Builder Should Have Known Better, Court Says
LOS ANGELES - A seasoned construction manager has only himself to blame for a scaffold plank falling on his foot while he talked on a cell phone at a busy construction site, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A seasoned construction manager has only himself to blame for a scaffold plank falling on his foot while he talked on a cell phone at a busy construction site, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday.
"Of all the people at a construction site, appellant was and is chargeable with caring for his own safety," a panel of the 2n...
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