The defendant-appellant had been engaged to install water piping in a cooling tower. The piping was required to be watertight. It was not constructed to bear the weight of employees of the defendant-appellant or other contractors or subcontractors. Plaintiff, an employee of A. G. Frichey Corp., fell within the cooling tower from a height of approximately 18 feet into a metal collection pan. Implicit in the verdict is that the fall was caused by the separation of 2-inch branch...
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