Olkowski v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

On October 5, 1967, Chester Olkowski worked for Wyandotte Corporation (hereinafter referred to as Wyandotte) in the packaging building of the work complex. While engaged in duties as a laborer, Olkowski suffered severe injuries in an unwitnessed accident ultimately resulting in his death. It was undisputed that while stacking pallets of metal drums four pallets high, one of the drums on the top pallet struck a protrusion on the ceiling causing the drum to topple backwards, striking Olkowski in the head and severing his spinal cord.

Olkowski’s widow, plaintiff herein, applied for and received…