Papco, Inc. v. Eaton

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

During construction of a manufacturing plant for International Paper Company in Cass County, Texas, Papco, Inc., the general contractor for the project built and supplied a scaffold for the employees of Southern Electrical and Piping Corporation, a subcontractor hereafter called Sep-co, to use in performing construction work. Jimmy Eaton, an employee of the subcontractor, was on the scaffold deck engaged in doing overhead welding just prior to sustaining injury. The scaffold’s deck or work floor where Eaton worked had two by six inch “toe boards” nailed to frame its…