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VIRDEN v. BETTS AND BEER CONST. CO., INC.

No. 01-0596.

656 N.W.2d 805 (2003)

Ron VIRDEN, Appellant, v. BETTS AND BEER CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. and Stroh Corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 23, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Channing L. Dutton of Lawyer, Lawyer, Dutton & Drake, L.L.P., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Gregory A. Witke and Matthew J. Haindfield of Bradshaw, Fowler, Proctor & Fairgrave, P.C., Des Moines, for appellee Betts and Beer Construction Co., Inc.

Richard K. Updegraff and Brian P. Rickert of Brown, Winick, Graves, Gross, Baskerville and Schoenebaum, P.L.C., Des Moines, for appellee Stroh Corporation.

NEUMAN, Justice.

Plaintiff, Ron Virden, worked in the maintenance department of Indianola High School. On the first day of school in 1997, Virden's supervisor asked him to reinstall an angle iron that had fallen from the ceiling of the school's new wrestling room. As Virden was bolting the angle iron into place, he fell from the top of the ten-foot ladder on which he was standing. He sustained severe injuries to his left leg, requiring several surgeries.

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