Carreras v. Honeggers & Co.

On June 1, 1971, plaintiff Robert Carreras, who was then employed as a truck driver, delivered to the defendant’s mill a load of corn gluten. Plaintiff on direction of Kenneth Johnson, an employee of the defendant, positioned his truck so as to dump his load into a metal hopper designed to receive the load. At the bottom of the hopper there was a rotating screw auger approximately 10 inches in diameter which carried the material out of the hopper and into the defendant’s building. The front end of the truck was elevated so as to dump the load out a small door in the tailgate.

The unloading…