State Industrial Insurance System v. Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc.

OPINION

Ronald Garamendi and John Garcia worked for Las Vegas Paving (LVP) and were electrocuted while they were pouring a concrete floor for a new flood channel in Las Vegas. Due to the depth of the excavated channel, LVP needed a pump truck to transport the concrete from Nevada Ready Mix’s trucks to the floor of the channel. LVP hired Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc. (Ortega) to provide the pump truck. On the day of the concrete pour, the boom of Ortega’s concrete truck, operated by an Ortega employee, struck an overhead power line, sending a high voltage current down into the channel where…