Hammell v. Shooshanian Engineering Associates, Inc.

During a steam line renovation project at the campus of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Paul Hammell, Jr., a worker at the project and the plaintiff here, suffered severe burns from a burst of high-pressure steam through a ruptured pipeline. He brought a personal injury action and tried the case to a jury in the Superior Court against four defendants: Shooshanian Engineering Associates, Inc. (Shooshanian), the project’s designer; All State Construction Services, Inc. (All State), the general contractor; the University of Massachusetts (university); and the University of…