High Court Upholds Judgment for Employer that Altered Machine

An employer's deliberate act of dismantling safety features of a leather-stamping machine was not so substantially certain to result in injury as to exempt a worker who was injured by the machine from the exclusivity provisions of New Jersey's workers' compensation law, New York's highest court ruled.Case: Lebron v. SML Veteran Leather, No. 89 SSM 45, 02/20/2014, published.Facts: Nelson Lebron worked for SML Veteran Leather. He suffered severe burns to his hand while using a hot leather-stamping machine. The accident occurred when a piece of leather became stuck in the mac...