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- Title: Turner Construction Co. v. Houlihan
- Author : United States Court of Appeals First Circuit
- Release Date : January 22, 1957
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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The plaintiff-appellee, John Houlihan, a citizen of Rhode Island, was employed by W. J. Halloran Co. as an "oiler" and "apprentice engineer" to work on a portable crane under the direct supervision of the crane operator. On or about Friday, March 20, 1953, the defendant-appellant, Turner Construction Company, a New York corporation, arranged with Houlihans employer for the use of a crane to hoist ready-mixed cement from the ground to the roof of a building which, as the general contractor, it was constructing for the St. Regis Paper Company in East Providence, Rhode Island. Houlihan and the crane operator on orders from Hallorans dispatcher moved their crane on the above day to the building site, reported to Turners supervisor on the job who described the work to be done, and then set the crane up in readiness to begin work on the following Monday. When they reported for work on Monday morning, March 23, they found that it was necessary to have a man posted on the roof of the building to give signals to the "blind" crane operator below so that he could maneuver the bucket of wet cement over a hopper on the roof into which it was to be emptied. It was Turnerhs duty as the general contractor on whose order the crane work was being done to provide a signal man, called a "tag-man," and applicable union rules required that the "tag-man" be a member of the iron-workers union. Turners supervisor "borrowed" an iron-worker to serve as "tag-man" from White Plains Iron Works, Inc., a New York corporation and one of Turners sub-contractors on the project, and the work of hoisting cement to the roof began.