The Alabama Supreme Court overturned a $3 million judgment in a wrongful death case, finding that a worker’s failure to realize a safety device was missing from a machine was not sufficient to hold him civilly liable for “removing” the device and causing a co-employee’s fatal accident.
Case: Leader v. Pablo, No. SC-2022-0736, 08/30/2024, published.
Facts: Catalina Estillado worked for ABC Polymer Industries LLC at a plant in Helena. In August 2017, Estillado was caught in industrial rollers while working alone on an assembly line producing a fibrillated polypropy...
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