Werdehausen v. Union Electric Co.

SATZ, Presiding Judge.

This is a personal injury action involving the duty of an employer to an employee of an independent contractor. Defendant-employer, Union Electric Company (UE), appeals from a money judgment in favor of plaintiff, Joseph Werdehausen, an employee of the independent contractor, Daniel International Corporation (Daniel). We reverse.

By written contract, UE hired Daniel to do construction work on UE’s Callaway Nuclear Power Plant. Plaintiff, a pipefit-ter, was injured on the construction site while working for Daniel. Plaintiff was walking under a scaffold when a man on the…