Poole v. C.F. Industries, Inc.

ROBERTS, SUSAN W., Associate Judge.

In this negligence action the plaintiff, Clyde Poole, sued the defendant, C.F. Industries, to recover for injuries Poole sustained when his employer was engaged to paint some pipes in a C.F. Industries’ phosphate plant. Some of the pipes carried sulfuric or phosphoric acid; others carried water. Poole observed some corroded pipes before he began painting. Then, during the course of his work on a scaffold some thirteen to fifteen feet in the air, he felt something warm and wet on his back. Fearing that it might be acid, he jumped and suffered injuries.

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