Plaintiff, an S&E employee engaged in hoist installation and maintenance, was injured while fixing a misaligned hoist elevator at a construction site. While plaintiff was on the hoist tower attempting to loosen a screw, an adjacent ascending hoist elevator struck his foot.
Plaintiff was not the sole proximate cause of the accident, as the testimony shows that the accepted practice among S&E workers was to step onto the tower when removing the screw at issue...
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