Singleton v. Executive Officers of Atlas Construction Co.

The trial court found executive officer liability in the complete and blatant disregard of the company’s own safety regulations, and the complete lack of a safety program of any implementation effort to enforce these safety regulations on the construction contract in question. The uncon-tradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff's fall from a scaffold resulted from a violation on the job of a safety regulation which prohibited movement of scaffolding with workmen on it — forbidding workmen “riding” the scaffolding when it was moved from one location to another.

In the direct action against…