Flanyak v. Hopta

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MANNION, Magistrate Judge.

Presently pending before the court is the defendants’ unopposed 1 motion for summary judgment. (Doe. No. 37).

I. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On July 26, 2004, the plaintiff, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, (“SCI-Mahanoy”), Frackville, Pennsylvania, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which he alleges that defendant Hopta violated his Eighth Amendment rights by subjecting him to unsafe conditions in the prison’s welding shop and that defendant Cerullo was deliberately indifferent to his resulting medical…