Tauchert v. Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis

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• holding summary judgment improper against employee where supervisor had personally arranged the faulty elevator hoist system
• holding that “creation of a hazardous condition is not merely a breach of an employer’s duty to provide a safe place to work” but an “affirmative negligent act outside the scope of ... responsibility to provide a safe workplace”
• holding a supervisor liable for injuries resulting from his personal rigging of a makeshift hoist system to raise the elevator
• finding the creation of a hazardous condition may make a co-employee or supervisor liable for negligence
• liability for supervisor who allegedly designed and built a makeshift hoist, which caused an elevator to crash with an employee inside
• foreman who personally arranged an elevator hoist system was liable to employee who was injured when the system failed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).