Sabatini v. General Electric Co.

OPINION OF THE COURT

Rubin, J.

Plaintiff Hugo Sabatini, an employee of the Jersey Central Power and Light Co. (JC), was injured on May 8,1974, when he fell approximately 50 feet from the opening on the second level, to the first level of JC’s nuclear power electric generating plant at Forked River, New Jersey. His fall was during the annual close down of the plant for repair, maintenance, and improvements (outage). The plant had been built for JC by General Electric Company (GE) and was put into operation in 1970.

Hugo Sabatini commenced a negligence action, inter alia, against GE to recover…