Lane v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.

ALPERT, Judge,

Specially Assigned.

In this case, we are called upon to decide whether an employer/premises owner can discharge his duty to warn an independent contractor’s employee of a latent danger by warning the independent contractor or his supervisory personnel.

*271Mr. Carroll Lane (“Lane”), an employee of BMI, Inc., an independent contractor, suffered work-related injuries while working for BMI, Inc. (“BMI”), which had been contracted to maintain the coke ovens at Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s Sparrows Point Steel Plant. The unfortunate industrial accident and the events that transpired…