PEAT v. N. J. MUSCHAMP & CO. LTD.

Abstract

November 6, 1969 Factory — Statutory duty — Breach — Disabled workman sustaining injury while lifting weight — Told previously by employers to ask for help in lifting weights if necessary — Help readily available — Whether “employed to lift, carry or move … load so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to him” — Whether employers entitled to leave decision to ask for help to plaintiff — Safe system of work — Failure of employers to provide — Whether established — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II, c. 34), s. 72(1).

Citation

Davies, L.J., Widgery, L.J. and Karminski, L.J. (1970), "PEAT v. N. J. MUSCHAMP & CO. LTD.", Managerial Law, Vol. 7 No. 6, pp. 469-477. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb021794