Plaintiff Walter Navedo was electrocuted while working on the 40th floor of a building under construction. As he rose from a kneeling position in which he had been taking measurements for a curtain wall, he took hold of a safety cable that ran along the perimeter of the building. The safety cable was not designed to carry an electric charge.
Third-party defendant subcontractor Electric, which provided temporary electrical power on all floors above the 11th for use...
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