KAPLAN, J.
John Ferris, twenty-six years old, employed as a painter by a subcontractor at Monsanto Company's Springfield plant, died of asphixiation through the discharge of nitrogen into a pipe connected to his air hood. This was an action for "wrongful death" (G.L.c. 229, § 2) by Ferris's widow, administratrix of his estate, against Monsanto, charging it with breach of its duty to exercise reasonable care with some emphasis on alleged failure to give adequate...
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