Virgil D. Foster v. National Starch and Chemical Company, a Corporation

KILEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Foster, an employee of Blaw-Knox Company, an independent contractor, sued National Starch and Chemical Company in an Illinois state court for damages for an injury he sustained while working on the National Starch premises. National Starch removed the diversity suit to the district court, which granted its motion for summary judgment. Foster has appealed. We affirm.

In 1968 National Starch contracted with Blaw-Knox for construction of a “polymeric amine” 1 plant on National Starch property in Meredosia, Illinois. Foster did welding work on the job for…