In December of 1964, Albert Jacobini was killed when a wheelbarrow plummeted 15 floors from a hoist adjoining a partially completed building on which he was working and struck him on the head. In January of 1972, a jury returned a verdict of $160,000 against International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), owner of the building.
It is undisputed that the wheelbarrow would not have...
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