Young v. Federal Match Co.

*114The opinion of the court was delivered by

Trenchard, J.

This action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff while in the employ of the defendant company as a pipefitter in its factory in Passaic.

The charge of negligence was that the defendant failed to exercise reasonable care to provide the plaintiff a safe place to work, in that it permitted the floor of the factory to become slippery and failed to properly clean the same, so that while plaintiff was in the act of climbing a ladder in order to make certain repairs to a “sprinkler,” the ladder slipped and threw…