Clow v. Metropolitan Sanitary District

PRESIDING JUSTICE LINN,

dissenting:

On petition for rehearing, Justice Linn would allow the petition and dissents from the majority opinion for the following reasons:

The purpose of the Structural Work Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 48, pars. 60 through 69) is to prevent injuries to (Halberstadt v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank (1972), 7 Ill. App. 3d 991, 996, 289 N.E.2d 90, 94, affirmed (1973), 55 Ill. 2d 121, 302 N.E.2d 64) and protect (Wright v. Synergistics, Inc. (1977), 52 Ill. App. 3d 233, 235, 367 N.E.2d 466, 467) workers engaged in dangerous and extrahazardous occupations (Crafton v.…