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MURPHY v. COLUMBUS McKINNON CORP.

Appeal No. 2020AP1124.

963 N.W.2d 837 (2021)

2021 WI App 61

Matthew W. MURPHY, Plaintiff-Appellant, Wisconsin Power and Light Company, Involuntary-Plaintiff, v. COLUMBUS McKINNON CORPORATION, Defendant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: July 8, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the plaintiff-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Douglas J. Phebus and Victor M. Arellano of Arellano & Phebus, S.C., Madison.

On behalf of the defendant-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Shannon M. Trevithick and Debora F. Pagel of Britton & Associates SC, Mequon, and Kevin J. English and Erin E. Connare of Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, New York.

Before Blanchard, Kloppenburg, and Nashold, JJ.

¶1 Utility line technician Matthew Murphy was injured while trying to load a wooden pole from the ground onto the bed of a trailer. Murphy lifted the pole using a set of metal tongs attached to the end of the winch line of a truck-mounted boom that he operated by remote control, but the pole fell and struck him. The tongs were...

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