Zink v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

This case is before the court on appeal from the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas.

Appellant, Richard G. Zink, was employed as a truck driver for appellee, AIRCO Industrial Gases. His main duty was to deliver liquid oxygen and nitrogen to various facilities. One of AIRCO’s customers was appellee, the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (“Owens-Corning”). On March 17, 1984, Zink was injured when he was delivering liquid nitrogen to Owens-Corning’s Granville, Ohio plant. Zink’s own records of that delivery show that he attempted to pump approximately thirteen hundred gallons of liquid nitrogen…