Richard Garczynski v. Darin & Armstrong Company

This is an appeal from summary judgment granted by a District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in favor of a general contractor in a third-party suit by an injured employee of a steel erection subcontractor. The steelworker’s complaint alleged that he was knocked off an I-beam thirty feet in the air as a result of the negligence of a crane operator who was a fellow employee working for the same subcontractor for whom the injured party worked.

Appellant’s appeal claims the benefit of the inherently dangerous exception1 to the general proposition…