Split Supreme Court Grants Mandamus Relief to Supervisor Accused of Willfully Causing Injury

A divided Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a maintenance supervisor was entitled to summary judgment dismissing a worker’s claim that his hand injury was the result of the deliberate removal of a safety guard. Clifford Bufford worked for Borbet Alabama Inc. as a maintenance technician at a wheel-manufacturing facility in Auburn for about 12 years. One of his duties was servicing the recycling system that transformed metal chips and shavings back into usable material. The system included a machine known as the VSS300. An auger and a vacuum pulled scrap metal through the VSS300 as the m...