Hall v. Harris

This is an appeal from summary judgments granted in favor of defendants Ron Cunningham and R.D. Harris in a co-employee liability suit.

The plaintiff, George E. Hall, was employed as a "head tapper" at Ohio Ferro-Alloys' facility in Montgomery. His job was to clean dross from a furnace tap hole so that hot liquid metal could flow out of the furnace. This was accomplished by firing an 8-gauge kiln gun into the tap hole.

On April 23, 1984, the plaintiff was cleaning out the tap hole when some type of projectile or object passed through his safety goggles and hit his right eye. Presently, the…