Timothy Sipples wrote: >Sometimes even if a certain practice is legal it might not be legally prudent. >Civil lawsuits exist in many jurisdictions.
It depends. If someone cuts a hole and left that hole open, someone can fall in that hole. Result - messy lawsuits, because you may not leave a hole open + unsupervised. (raised floor, sewer pipes, cable ducts, etc.) That is a messy+expensive matter and the hole-cutter may be fired while the unfortunate person is recovering in the hospital. (At my work ages ago, a woman was busy carrying tapes and fall through a hole which was cut a hour or two ago. One leg down, another above floor. Ouch. She got compensated however.) Same goes for those large automatic doors. An operator at Barclays bank in Johannesburg was killed by such a door during years around 1990. It was her fault, not the door operator. While the door was closing (sirens and lights were on), she decided to turn back. Somehow she got caught and she was crushed. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
