Carpenter v. Sinclair Refining Co.

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries arising out of an explosion on January 21, 1918, in the pump house, so called, on the defendant’s premises, while the plaintiff, an employee of J. Comer Jones Power and Pump Company of Boston, at the request of the defendant was installing a pump. The plaintiff contends that he was injured because of the negligence of the defendant in failing to warn him of the dangers connected with the work, and to which he was likely to be exposed. The case was submitted to the jury on the seventh count which was at common law for failure to warn.

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