Mumford v. Philadelphia Ship Repairing Co.

Citations

• 263 Pa. 573
• 107 A. 371
• 1919 Pa. LEXIS 479

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Master and servant — Safe place to work — Change in conditions — Increased dangers — Duty to warn.</p> <p>1. It is the master’s duty to furnish his servant a reasonably safe place to work and to warn the servant of any change in conditions, methods, or appliances, whereby the dangers are increased.</p> <p>Negligence — Master and servant — Duty to guard open hatchway on boat — Injury by falling object.</p> <p>2. The failure of an employer to cover or guard an open hatchway of a boat upon which his employees are working, or to give warning by calling to persons below that heavy objects were being moved over the open hatch, so as to enable them to protect themselves from injury, is evidence of negligence, and renders him liable to an employee injured by a heavy pipe which fell through the open hatch, as it was being carried to an upper deck, and struck the employee while he was at work in the lower part of the boat where he had been directed to go.</p>