BULPETT v. DODGE ASSOCIATES, INC.


5 Mass. App. Ct. 593 (1977)

365 N.E.2d 1248

DONALD BULPETT vs. THE DODGE ASSOCIATES, INC. & another (and two companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hiller B. Zobel for Consolidated Utilities Equipment Service, Inc.

Philander S. Ratzkoff (Richard L. Neumeier with him) for The Dodge Associates, Inc.

John J. Murphy for Wilfred Owen.

Raymond J. Kenney, Jr., for Donald Bulpett.

Present: KEVILLE, GRANT, & BROWN, JJ.


KEVILLE, J.

Donald Bulpett (Bulpett) and Wilfred Owen (Owen) were seriously injured in falls from two "buckets" of a hydraulic aerial mechanism called a sky-worker when the boom suspending the buckets collapsed. At the time of the accident Bulpett was employed as an electrician by M.B. Foster Electric Company (Foster), an electrical contractor engaged in the erection and insulation of a power substation for the Boston Edison Company (Edison). Owen was a self-employed...

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