Heath v. SIMS BROS. CONST. CO., INC.

Sims Brothers Construction Co., Inc., ("Sims Brothers") was the general contractor constructing a shopping center near Anniston, Alabama. Albert Heath was employed as a sheetrock finisher by Bonners Acoustical Contractors, a subcontractor engaged by Sims Brothers to perform sheet-rock work on the project. On July 2, 1984, Heath was working on a scaffold six feet above a concrete floor. In the area where he was working, there were holes in the floor where plumbing and refrigeration fixtures were to be placed. The scaffold upon which he was working was equipped with wheels so that it could be…