Howard Jamison, Administrator of the Estate of Jesse Click, Deceased v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation

OPINION OF THE COURT

FREEDMAN, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this diversity case is whether defendant Westinghouse was the statutory employer of decedent under the provisions of the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.

Decedent, a painter, fell to his death when the scaffold on which he was standing collapsed while he was painting the ceiling of a building on the site of the Bettis Atomic Laboratory. He was an employee of the Eichleay Corporation, which was on the premises under a contract with Westinghouse for the “renovation, relocation, and installation of machinery and services to provide…