BLACKSHERE v. KEMPER INS. CO.

No. 13367.

352 So.2d 275 (1977)

G. T. BLACKSHERE, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee, v. KEMPER INSURANCE COMPANY, Hughes Oxygen Company, Inc. and Union Carbide Corporation, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gamm, Greenberg & Kaplan by Irving M. Greenberg, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant-appellee, G. T. Blackshere.

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons by G. M. Bodenheimer, Jr., James P. Bodenheimer, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants-appellees, Union Carbide Corp. and American Motorists Ins. Co.

Cook, Clark, Egan, Yancey & King by Gordon E. Rountree, Shreveport, for intervenor-appellant-appellee, Reliance Ins. Co.

Lunn, Irion, Switzer, Johnson & Salley by Richard H. Switzer, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Hughes Oxygen Co., Inc.


En Banc. Rehearing Denied December 5, 1977.

HALL, Judge.

Plaintiff, G. T. Blackshere, an employee of Williams Truck Parts, Inc., was injured when a valve stem assembly blew out of an oxygen cylinder while he was in the process of changing to a full tank in the course of his work with a cutting torch. A portion of the metal handwheel of the cylinder valve passed through his right hand causing him to sustain a severe...

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