Williams v. Union Carbide Corp.

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

Based on a jury verdict, the trial court entered a take-nothing judgment in a premises liability suit. Appellant, Charles D. Williams (“Williams”), was an employee of Bechtel Corporation (“Bechtel”), a contractor doing repairs at a plant operated by the appellee, Union Carbide Corporation (“Union Carbide”).

Williams was injured when the sheet of grating on which he was standing collapsed after his co-worker, a fellow Bechtel employee, removed the adjacent sheet of grating. The grating on which Williams was standing was supported, in part, by a piece of angle iron that…