Wamser v. N. J. Westra & Sons, Inc.

Plaintiff, an employee of Fenestra, Inc., was injured on a construction project at the Grand Rapids public museum when an angle iron weighing some 50 pounds fell from above and struck him. An employee of defendant, the general contractor, mounted the angle iron on the side of a building approximately 9-1/2 feet above an elevated passageway which Fenestra, Inc., as subcontractor, had agreed to enclose in a metal curtain wall. Plaintiff brought suit alleging negligence on the part of defendant and seeking to recover damages for injuries sustained as a result of defendant’s negligence.

The trial…