Olendorff v. St. Luke's Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

PATRICIA L. COHEN, Judge.

OPINION

Alan Olendorff (Plaintiff) appeals from the trial court’s judgment dismissing his negligence action against St. Luke’s Hospital on the grounds that St. Luke’s was Plaintiffs statutory employer within the meaning of Section 287.040 RSMo. We affirm.

Background

The record reflects that Plaintiff was a general carpentry foreman employed by McCarthy to perform work on St. Luke’s campus. The campus consisted of 500,000 square feet, seven buildings, three garages, surface parking lots, roadways, and over 200,000 square feet of office space. Managing and maintaining the…