Stephen C. Scaccianoce and Kellie L. Scaccianoce v. Hixon Manufacturing & Supply Company and Commonwealth Edison Company

SKINNER, District Judge.

The plaintiff Stephen Scaccianoce (“the plaintiff’) was working as a surveyor’s helper when he was injured. He was using a surveyor’s device called a prism pole, manufactured by the defendant Hixon Manufacturing & Supply Company (“Hixon”). A prism pole is used to enable a surveyor to sight lines where there are obstructions, such as underbrush, at ground level. It consisted in this case of a telescoping pole, which extends to 25 feet, with a prism mounted on the top designed to reflect a laser beam to an electronic surveying device, which registers the required angles…