Did company intentionally disable safety device?

An employee can sue an employer outside of workers’ compensation if it can be proved the employer intended to cause injury to a worker. In this case, a worker was seriously injured when a safety device apparently failed to operate properly.

Phillip Pixley was a maintenance worker for Pro-Pak Industries in Ohio. On July 2, 2008, Pixley decided to order a replacement part for a malfunctioning conveyor-line motor. As he knelt by the conveyor line, a transfer car that ran parallel to it struck his leg.

The transfer car had a safety device that should have stopped it upon impact. That didn’t occur. The operator of the transfer car had to manually stop it after he realized it had struck Pixley.

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