Herrell v. NATIONAL BEEF PACKING CO., LLC

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Beier, J.:

This is a premises liability case with a twist. Plaintiff Shelly K. Herrell successfully sued defendant National Beef Packing Co., LLC (National Beef) to recover for a knee injury she suffered while working in its Dodge City beef-packing plant. National Beef appeals, arguing that Herrell’s status as an employee of an independent contractor, Terracon Consultants, Inc. (Terracon), and her receipt of workers compensation meant that it did not owe her the landowner’s usual duty of reasonable care.

The district judge denied National Beefs pretrial…