Wimbush v. Confederate Packaging, Inc.

Phipps, Judge.

A belt drive on Confederate Packaging, Inc.’s cardboard box folding machine caught the pants leg of employee Bernard Wimbush, injuring his foot and destroying his pants and one boot. Wimbush alleges that the accident occurred, in part, because Confederate Packaging had removed a safety device from the machine. Wimbush received workers’ compensation benefits from Confederate Packaging for his physical injuries. He also sued Confederate Packaging for negligence in removing the device, seeking compensatory damages for the injury to his clothing and punitive damages for the alleged…