Breining v. Trimble

Painter, Judge.

On October 14, 1991, plaintiff Thomas Breining was installing two-foot-by-two-foot circuit breakers in an elevated substation with Ottis Carpenter and Tim Leugering for defendant Mayers Electric Company (“Mayers”) at the General Electric Aircraft Engines Plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. After the three men hauled up a circuit breaker to the substation floor, Carpenter and Leugering diverted their attention from Breining. Breining alleged that he next stepped back and to the side, became entangled in some tools, stumbled, then fell forward and struck his head on the circuit breaker.…