Hammond v. Bechtel Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding issues of material fact where employer had an extensive safety inspection process, and had the authority to direct that defective equipment not be used by the independent contractor
• finding that possibility of such control existed
• finding that possibility of such control existed
• employer may explicitly contract to retain active control over safety procedures used by an independent contractor
• general contractor who retains control over work entrusted to independent contractor may be liable for physical harm caused by independent contractor
• employer conducted extensive safety inspections, had the authority to direct that defective equipment not be used, and did so direct on several occasions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).