Dupree v. Keller Industries, Inc.

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• holding that duties imposed by Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations may supply the legal duty required to maintain a claim under Georgia Code section 51–1–6
• federal OSHA regulations are admissible as evidence of a legal duty, the violation of which may give a cause of action under OCGA § 51-1-6
• violation of federal OSHA regulations are admissible as evidence of and give cause of action under OCGA § 51-1-6
• “If a defendant owes no legal duty to the plaintiff, there is no cause of action in negligence.”
• violation of federal OSHA regulations are admissible as evidence of and give cause of action under OCGA § 51-1-6
• where defendant owes no legal duty to the plaintiff, there is no cause of action in negligence; what duty a defendant owed a plaintiff is a matter of law

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