The Weekly Law Reports
[1961] 1 WLR 961
[QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION.]
BYERS
v.
HEAD WRIGHTSON & CO. LTD.
1960 Dec. 8,
9,
12,
13,
21.
Elwes J.
Building
— Safety regulations
— Application
— “Building”
— Installation of party of sealed reactor building of nuclear reactor in course of construction
— Whether “construction … of a building”
— Removal of welder across improvised bridge over trench
— “Scaffold”
— Workman in charge injured by welder
— Whether employer liable
—
Building (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1948 (S.I. 1948, No. 1145), regs. 2 (1), 3 (2), 5, 7 (1), 12 (1), 26 (3), 93.
Statutory duty
— Breach
— Contributory negligence
— Scaffold
— Workman injured as a result of own act
— Task beyond competence of workman
— Whether employer liable
— Whether contributory negligence.