COOK v. BAKER EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING CO., INC.

No. 77-1555.

582 F.2d 862 (1978)

Delmar Ray COOK, Appellant, v. BAKER EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. H. McElwee and William C. Warden, Jr., North Wilkesboro, N. C. (McElwee, Hall & McElwee, North Wilkesboro, N. C., on brief), for appellant.

William Kearns Davis, Winston-Salem, N. C. (Richard V. Bennett, Deal, Hutchins & Minor, Winston-Salem, N. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before BUTZNER, LAY, and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


LAY, Circuit Judge.

On June 2, 1970, Delmar Ray Cook, a citizen of North Carolina, while performing work from an aerial tower for an electrical contractor, suffered severe flash burns as he moved an uninsulated high voltage electrical line on a cross arm of a utility pole. Several high voltage lines were mounted at various heights on the pole. At the time of the accident, which took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, Cook was standing in a fiberglass reinforced...

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