Allgood v. United Gas Corp.

I am unable to bring myself into accord with the conclusions of the Court.

Let it be assumed, but not conceded, that the can furnished to plaintiff was unreasonably unsafe, the controlling opinion, by denying liability of defendant with respect to the cause of his falling, confines the employer’s liability to the failure to furnish an instrumentality that was' not reasonably safe. Wherefore, the injury must have been reasonably foreseeable, not as a result of the fall, but of the defects or dangers in the container. Had plaintiff suffered injury because of the burning of his fingers from the…