Read the full judgment text of HCPI 000541/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 January 1998.
1. The Plaintiff was a carpenter by profession. On 23.1.1995, he was employed by the Defendant to work at Flats A-B 3/F. No. 16 Victory Lane, Mongkok, Kowloon. At about 2:15 p.m. that day, he was hitting a steel nail into the ceiling beam with a hammer when the nail head broke. He was not wearing any safety goggles and the nail head struck his left eye, resulting in a large corneal laceration.
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