Raines v. Gould, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee of subcontractor installing electrical system at battery plant being constructed for defendant was not defendant's statutory employee
• \[The record does 8 not indicate the work being performed by Raines . . . was an integral part of [battery manufacturer's] operations without which it cannot function.\
• “Every manufacturer must have a plant, but this fact alone does not make the work of constructing a plant a part of the trade or business of every manufacturer who engages a contractor to construct a plant.”
• wherein this court held manufacturer of batteries was not statutory employer of worker injured while installing electrical system at plant being constructed for manufacturer, noting construction work is ordinarily outside the trade or business of a manufacturer
• “[W]e find it unnecessary to apply either prong of the Shell Oil test. Indeed, that test is only a corollary guide, sometimes useful but not indispensable, in applying the literal language of the statutes to the facts in a particular case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).