Although defendant subcontractor Regional was not in privity of contract with the plaintiff worker, it was contractually responsible for maintenance and repair of the material hoist he was hired to operate, and thus owed this worker a duty of care. Regional's failure to perform its contractual duties by properly maintaining and preparing the hoist resulted in injury to the worker, who had "detrimentally relie[d] on the continued performance of [Regional's contractual] duties...
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