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· 5/25/1994

Miller v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

Citations

  • 634 N.E.2d 1108
  • 261 Ill. App. 3d 872
  • 199 Ill. Dec. 754

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding that under Illinois law, a subcontractor who had no control over another contractor’s employee’s worksite, his activities, and the manner and means in which he performed his work owed no duty to provide for that employee’s safety
  • owner had no duty to protect employee from open and obvious condition of man-lift opening in the fifth-floor deck of a construction project
  • catwalk not a structure where, at the time of his injury, plaintiff used such to go to lunch
  • “Violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards may constitute evidence of negligence but do not create a statutory duty.”
  • “Violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards may constitute evidence of negligence but do not create a statutory duty.”
  • owner had no duty to protect employee from open and obvious condition of man-lift opening in the fifth-floor deck of a construction project

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Judges: Steigmann

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