C & K LORD, INC. v. CARTER

No. 600 September Term, 1987.

74 Md. App. 68 (1988)

536 A.2d 699

C & K LORD, INC. v. JOHN W. CARTER.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Kopen (George J. Goldsborough, Jr. and Goldsborough & Tolley, on the brief) Easton, for appellant.

Henry I. Greenberg (Toni S. Lifshotz on the brief) Baltimore, for appellee Carter.

Lawrence E. Ballantine (Rollins, Smalkin, Richards & Mackie, on the brief) Baltimore, for appellees, Darling-Delaware Co., Eastern Shore Rendering Co. and Pleiscott.

Argued before GARRITY, ALPERT, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

John W. Carter, the appellee, was injured on December 22, 1981, at the Eastern Shore Rendering Co. (Eastern Shore), a chicken rendering plant in Linkwood, Maryland. Carter was working on a conveyor that transported feathers to cookers for processing into feed. As a routine matter, wet feathers would drop off the topside of the conveyor and get caught underneath. If not cleared periodically, the feathers would cause the belt to jam and stop running....

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