Nello Morrocco and Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Co., of Wisconsin v. Northwest Engineering Company, a Delaware Corporation

This appeal is from a judgment entered in the District Court on a jury verdict for defendant in a personal injury action against the manufacturer of a pullshovel.

Plaintiff, Morrocco, was a construction worker employed by a sewer contractor. He was engaged in laying sections of concrete sewer pipe into an excavation which was made by the pullshovel. The pull-shovel, which was commonly known as a “Northwest Back Hoe” had been purchased new by the contractor only three days prior to the accident. After acquiring the pullshovel the contractor installed a hook on the back of the dipper bucket to…