Giordano v. Clement Martin, Inc.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Hoeace Steen,

William S. Miller Company was the general contractor erecting a school building; Clement Martin, Inc. was a subcontractor for the work of bricklaying; Guy Giordano, plaintiff, was a cement finisher employed by Pittsburgh Ply-Bite Company, a subcontractor for the waterproofing. One morning while plaintiff was standing on a scaffold applying waterproofing to a wall, the scaffold being about five feet above the floor of what was to be the basement of the school, he was injured by the fall of a stone, 20 x 40 x 8 inches and weighing from 200 to 300 pounds, which…