Parker Drilling Co. v. O'NEILL

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• holding that there is a common law duty to provide a safe work site running to whoever supplies and controls the work site
• holding that there is a common law duty to provide a safe work site running to whoever supplies and controls the work site
• noting that employers are ordinarily not liable for the torts of independent contractors
• affirming “that there is a common law duty to provide a safe worksite . . . . [and] protect[] all workers on the site” and that “[t]he duty is not dependent upon the existence of any particular combination of contractual relationships”
• employee killed when platform on which he was standing fell approximately twenty feet after platform was struck by \traveling block\ weighing several tons
• owner ran the operation, owned the faulty equipment, and was directly responsible for safety and supervision

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