Horner v. Boston Edison Co.

On April 22, 1989, while making a security check at the defendant’s (Edison’s) Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, the plaintiff, Mark J. Horner, slipped and fell on a stairway with a missing tread. That mishap caused him serious injuries, which disabled him from working. At the time of the accident, Homer was an employee of Wackenhut Corporation (Wackenhut), which had a contract with Edison to provide security services at the plant. After filing a claim under G. L. c. 152 for workers’ *140compensation benefits, he began receiving weekly payments from Wackenhut’s workers’ compensation insurer. The workers’…