(Download) "Greiten and Wife v. La Dow" by 1994 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Term " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Greiten and Wife v. La Dow
- Author : 1994 United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit August Term
- Release Date : January 25, 1975
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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While working for the Phillip Lithographing Company, the plaintiff-appellant, Allan Greiten, was injured on April 15, 1970. The plaintiff-appellant at the time of his injury was working with a printing press with the paper inserted at the feeder end and coming off the press at the delivery end. At the delivery end was a device called a retractable board holder, designed and installed by the defendant-respondent, Arthur La Dow. It consisted of two parallel angle irons, supported by four air cylinders which were mounted on brackets, and it was located directly below the delivery end of the press. The purpose of the angle irons was to support a plywood board so that printed material coming off the press would be deposited on the plywood board. By use of an electrical switch, mounted on the press, power was turned on and the pistons emanating from four air cylinders (two on each angle iron) would become energized from a solenoid valve and push the angle irons out to an extended position. If the power was turned off, or failed, the angle irons would retract and the plywood board and any paper on it would drop a minimal distance onto the wooden skid of the press. At the time of the accident the crew working on the press was changing a loaded skid. A hand truck had been pushed under the skid and had become stuck. When plaintiff-appellant reached under the skid to shake the hand truck loose, a circuit breaker, which controlled the circuit that the board-holder device was on, opened and cut off the electricity, causing the angle irons to retract and the plywood board and paper to fall on the head of the plaintiff.