Samodai v. Chrysler Corp.

The circuit court granted summary disposition in favor of defendant Chrysler Corporation and dismissed plaintiffs’ claim for personal injuries and loss of consortium resulting from an accident on Chrysler’s premises in the course of plaintiff Paul Samodai’s employment with a contracting firm doing demolition and renovation work for Chrysler. We affirm.

Immediately before the accident, Samodai, standing on a wooden pallet placed on the prongs of a forklift, was elevated in order to change some temporary light bulbs suspended some twenty to twenty-five feet above the floor. Thereafter, as…