Rogalski v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

McDONOUGH, Chief Justice.

Appeal from a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff awarding damages for personal injuries sustained while on the property of defendant, Phillips Petroleum Company.

At the time he was injured, plaintiff was engaged in steam cleaning a truck owned and operated by his employer, Parley Drou-bay, a “distributing agent” of defendant’s products, on a concrete platform maintained by the defendant to clean its own trucks. Plaintiff stumbled into a vat of caustic soda, which was within two inches of the platform, used by defendant for cleaning by immersion certain truck parts.…