Schreder v. Cities Service Co.

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Phyllis Schreder appealed from a summary judgment dismissing her complaint against Bomac Drilling, TRG Drilling Corporation, and Alfred Hastings (“the defendants”) 1 to recover damages for the wrongful death of her husband, Paul. We affirm.

I

At the time of his death, Paul Schreder was an employee of TRG Drilling Corporation and was working as a “driller” on an oil rig located in Billings County, North Dakota. One of Schreder’s primary duties as a driller was to operate the controls which regulated the upward and downward movements of the traveling blocks suspended by cable…