Plaintiff was injured when his right forearm was struck by a metal shard that flew from the "mushroomed" head of a "drift pin" that a coworker was hammering with a sledgehammer. A drift pin is a tapered metal hand tool that is hammered into the holes of steel beams to align them, and once the holes are aligned, the drift pin is removed and a bolt is put through the holes to secure the beams. According to defendants' proof, the subject drift pin was about one foot long, one...
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