Wright v. Synergistics, Inc.

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON

delivered the opinion of the court:

The sole issue in this appeal is whether a person injured walking across a scaffold as she left her place of employment, although she was not employed in the construction on which the scaffold was being used, is protected by the Illinois Structural Work Act (“the Act”) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 48, pars. 60-69).

Plaintiff, who was employed by the Board of Education to prepare lunches at a Chicago school, alleges that defendants erected an arrangement of scaffolds and planks while making repairs at the school. Plaintiff fell off the…