Brady v. Ralph M. Parsons Co.

ROSALYN B. BELL, Judge.

This case presents the question whether the defenses of contributory negligence and assumption of risk were properly submitted to the jury in an action based upon an independent contractor’s alleged violation of an assumed duty to ensure a safe workplace for someone other than its own employees. We hold that these defenses were properly submitted to the jury.

On January 18, 1981, Donald C. Brady (decedent), 1 died as a result of injuries he sustained in a fall from a scaffold erected during construction at the Cold Spring Lane Station of the Baltimore Region Rapid…