Pfenninger v. Hunterdon Central Regional High School

This wrongful death action was instituted to recover damages resulting from the death of twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Pfenninger who was killed when an eight-to-nine-foot-deep trench collapsed, on top of him while he was installing drainage pipe. The appeal presents three primary issues. The first issue is whether the landowner, Hunterdon Central Regional High School District Board of Education (Board) and the architect, A.J. O’Sullivan Architects, P.A. (O’Sullivan), breached a duty of care to Pfenninger arising out of a responsibility to supervise Pfenninger’s company in the excavation and…