Richard Owen and Edward N. Dewey, Travelers Insurance Company, Intervenor-Appellant v. Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.

This is an appeal from a Louisiana diversity case in which appellants Owen and Dewey sought damages in tort against appellee Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation. 1 Appellants were employees of Carl L. Woodward, Inc., which had contracted to construct part of a new chemical plant for Kaiser Aluminum. Both appellants were injured when a steel column on which they were working collapsed without warning. Appellants allege that the column had been constructed by Kaiser Aluminum and that it fell because of Kaiser Aluminum’s negligence in erecting it. The trial court granted summary judgment…