Gonzalez v. Russell Sorensen Construction
Court of Appeals of Utah
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
VOROS, Associate Presiding Judge:
T1 This is an appeal from the denial of a summary judgment motion. The case involves a workplace injury claim brought by a subcontractor's employee against the general contractor. The appeal focuses on a general contractor's potential lability for injuries allegedly resulting from a hazardous condition on the job site.
T2 The general contractor is Appellant Russell Sorensen Construction (Sorensen); the subcontractor is John Clayton Construetion (Clayton); the injured employee is Ap-pellee Jose M. Gonzalez (Gonzalez). After falling from some scaffolding,…
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