Read the full judgment text of DCPI 000916/2004 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 1 August 2005.
1. On 31 July 2002 the plaintiff was employed as a summer worker, meaning I think by that expression a temporary worker, by the defendant who operated a small general contracting company. He was at the time that he was injured assisting another worker to remove an air-conditioning unit from a false ceiling in office premises. In the course of that removal the air-conditioning unit somehow detached itself and it fell on the plaintiff, striking him on the head and the shoulder, as a result of wh