Keene v. Chicago Bridge and Iron Co

In Keene v. Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., 596 So. 2d 700, 704 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992), Keene was an employee of Ceilcote, a coating subcontractor. He was injured while attempting to move the sandblasting machine of the painting subcontractor, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, from Ceilcote's scaffolding boards. In reversing the trial court's directed verdict for Chicago Bridge, this court said: The evidence established a jury issue as to whether Chicago Bridge breached its duty of care in this case, and whether such breach was the proximate cause of Keene's injuries. Whether placing and maintaining a loaded sand pot weighing 1,000 pounds on top of a stack of scaffolding boards belonging to Ceilcote presented a condition or special risk that was unreasonably dangerous to Ceilcote's employees needing to move it in order to use the scaffolding boards, and whether Chicago Bridge's failure to give Ceilcote and its employees reasonable warning that the machine was loaded with sand and to give adequate cautionary instructions for its safe removal from atop the boards constituted a breach of Chicago Bridge's duty of care to Ceilcote's employee Keene were clearly questions for the jury. Keene, 596 So. 2d at 705.