Taranto v. Cook

BARRY, Judge.

Two defendants appeal a judgment in an “executive officer” tort suit1 and plaintiff answered asserting compensation benefits were erroneously offset and the award was inadequate.

On January 14, 1970 plaintiff was a “spare” assigned as an “anode man” and was injured while attempting to “pull channels” in the pot room at the Kaiser Aluminum plant in Chalmette. The “pots” were electrolyte furnaces in which aluminum ore is reduced to pure aluminum. A “channel” is a 1200 pound piece of metal, “u” shaped, ten inches across and twelve feet long. Channels are attached to the side of the…