POPPELL v. GEORGIA POWER COMPANY.

60655.

157 Ga. App. 488 (1981)

277 S.E.2d 777

POPPELL v. GEORGIA POWER COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 11, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Alvin Leaphart, for appellant.

David Higdon, Joseph H. Davis, for appellee.


CARLEY, Judge.

Appellant Poppell, plaintiff below, was an employee of Standard Construction Company (Standard). Standard, as an independent contractor, entered into a contract with appellee Georgia Power Company, defendant below, for the "Excavation, Concrete and Piling Work" involved in the construction of the Hatch Nuclear Plant. While engaged on the Hatch construction project, Poppell was struck by an unsecured pipeline and fell from a scaffold, sustaining severe...

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