Truscon Steel Co. v. Trumbull Cliffs Furnace Co.

The steel company was a self-insuring employer, under the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Section 1465-37 et seq., General Code). The furnace company employed the steel company, as an independent contractor, to furnish the necessary labor and materials therefor, and to construct a piece of work for the furnace company, upon the property of the furnace company. While the employees of the steel company were engaged in performing the work so undertaken, one of the employees of the steel company was seriously injured, crippled for life, as a direct and proximate result of negligence on the part of an…