Read the full judgment text of HCA 005079/1991 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 January 1995.
1. The plaintiff was, for some 26 years until 14 July 1988, a steel binder. A steel binder is a person who manipulates very heavy steel bars for use in re-enforcing concrete. At times, he works on scaffolding some distance from the ground. He was doing so on 14 July 1988. He fell. He fell when he was descending a scaffolding because he placed his foot on a metal bar that gave way under him. He did not fall very far; perhaps ten or twenty feet. He was able to arrest his descent some ten to fiftee
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