Welker v. Kennecott Copper Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that protection provided by § 414 applies to employees of independent contractor
• applying § 413 in conjunction with § 416 providing for vicarious liability
• evidence of precautions taken after an accident tends to show right of control over the safety program
• “[t]erms such as ‘special precautions’ and ‘peculiar risk of bodily harm’, ‘inherently dangerous to others’ and ‘dangerous character of the work’ are fine prose but difficult to apply to actual situations so as to mark out the line between liability and nonliability” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).