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- Title: Williams v. United Men's Shop
- Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Release Date : January 01, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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SPALDING, Justice. The plaintiff seeks to recover compensation for personal injuries sustained by him while engaged in repairing an electric fan on the defendant's premises. These facts could have been found: The plaintiff was an electrician employed by an electrical contractor who had agreed with the defendant to do some electrical work in the latter's store. The contract, among other things, called for the installation of an electric fan, and on July 5, 1939, the plaintiff assisted in setting one up. The fan (which was installed in a rectangular area above one of the show cases in the store) was enclosed behind a removable screen. As a result of complaints from the defendant that the fan was not working properly, the plaintiff on July 20, 1939 (pursuant to instructions from his employer), went to the store for the purpose of making the necessary adjustments. He removed the screen and climbed into the recess in which the fan was located. To do this it was necessary for him to 'crouch and crawl in on his hands and knees.' The light was sufficient and he could see everything inside. Upon completing the adjustments on the fan, the plaintiff caused it to be started so that he could listen to it. He listened to it for two or three minutes, and, observing that he had left his pliers underneath the fan, again crawled into the recess to get them. After obtaining his pliers, and while withdrawing from the recess, 'he knelt on something that got under his knee and 'it tipped him over,' [it was] some loose object * * * ' was not part of the floor,' and he threw his hand up and hit the fan,' as a result of which he sustained the injuries complained of. Between July 5, 1939, and July 20, 1939, the day of the accident, another contractor had done some carpentry work in the recess in which the fan was located.