Duke v. Gold Kist, Inc.

MONROE, Judge.

Sherry Duke appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for Gold Kist, Inc. Duke sued Gold Kist claiming that she was injured when she slipped in water, grease, and other substances that had accumulated on the floor of the defendant’s poultry processing plant, creating what she said was an unsafe or hazardous condition.

Gold Kist operates a poultry processing plant in Trussville. The United States Department of Agriculture has an office and break room at the plant to facilitate the inspection of the poultry products processed at the plant. Duke, a USDA employee, had been…