Bailey v. Valtec Hydraulics, Inc.

CRANDALL, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Harold Bailey and Virginia Bailey, his wife, brought this negligence action against defendant, Valtec Hydraulics, Inc. Plaintiff 1 sustained bodily injuries in July 1980, while he was unloading a truck incident to his employment. The lift on the back of the truck dropped to the ground, causing the load in the truck to fall on plaintiff. He claimed that defendant had improperly repaired the cylinder in the hydraulic lift by welding a dimensionally different rod eye made of cast iron to the steel shaft of the cylinder. This weld produced a weak connection which…