RODGERS v. LONDON BRICK CO. LTD.

Abstract

January 27, 1970 Mines Quarry — Dangerous machinery — Moveable bar on tractor — Four‐inch nip when bar fully raised — Tractor being removed from pit by attaching dragline to bar — Slip by employee trapping foot in nip — Whether a “dangerous” exposed part of machinery — Whether duty to fence — Dragline not long enough to reach if tractor on level ground — Tractor backed short way up slope of pit — Whether failure to provide longer dragline breach of statutory or common law duty — Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz.II, c.70), ss. 82(1), 115.

Citation

Russell, L.J., Davies, E. and Megaw, L.J. (1970), "RODGERS v. LONDON BRICK CO. LTD.", Managerial Law, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 843-853. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb021832