Thompson v. South Central Bell Telephone Co.

GULOTTA, Judge.

In this appeal the issue is whether South Central Bell Telephone Company is the “statutory employer” of Don Thompson entitled to a dismissal by summary judgment of Thompson’s tort suit for injuries sustained in a job-related accident.

At the time of his accident, Thompson was employed by Cifers Construction Company, Inc., which was under contract with South Central Bell to install underground, plastic conduit that would ultimately encase telephone wires running to a new office development on Canal Street in the City of New Orleans. Thompson was injured when the jackhammer he was…