Hirer of an Independent Contractor Implicitly Delegates Site Safety Responsibility Other than for Its Own Employees
ConstructionRisk.com Report Vol. #14, Issue #4
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Independent Contractor,Multi-employer liability,OSHA,Safety,Site Safety
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The general rule that that employees of an independent contractor that are injured in the workplace cannot sue the party that hired the contractor to do the work applies even when the party that hired the contractor failed to comply with workplace safety requirements that were statutorily imposed by CAL-OSHA. US Airways hired an independent [...]
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General Contractor Liable for Injury to Independent Contractor’s Employee
Fall Protection,Safety,Site Safety
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For years, general contractors have relied upon the well-settled proposition that a general contractor owes no duty to ensure that an independent contractor performs its work in a safe manner. Elliot Williams Co. v. Diaz, 9 S.W.3d 801, 803 (Tex. 1999); Hoechst-Celanese Corp. v. Mendez, 967 S.W.2d 354, 356 (Tex. 1998). When the general contractor, [...]
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