Workshop Activity: Problem solving
AB is an employee of the CD delivery firm. One day he is asked to deliver a large crate to the premises of EF Pty Ltd. Normally he would do so with a fellow employee, but on this day his co-worker is ill and CDâs manager tells him to do the delivery on his own.
AB is a bit concerned about handling the crate at the other end, but the manager tells him to use the lifting equipment supplied with the truck.
Having arrived at the premises of EF, AB backs up the truck to the loading bay, gets out and hooks up the crate to the truck lifting gear. There is a metal plate on the truck near the lifting gear controls which indicates that the maximum load to be lifted is 500 kg. But the plate is so dirty, as the trucks are never washed, that it is unreadable. AB
has never used the gear before and has never been told of the limit. The crate is 550 kg. While the lifting gear is swinging the crate out of the truck into the loading bay it snaps, and the crate falls onto ABâs leg.
The premises of EF Pty Ltd are located next door to the surgery of Dr GH, a busy general practitioner. While most of the horrified employees of EF are removing the crate from ABâs leg, one of them enters the surgery and asks Dr GH to come and look at the leg. The doctor has a busy morning and a waiting room full of patients, and he tells the employee to call an ambulance. Later ABâs leg is amputated.
(1) Would an action in negligence by AB against CD be resolved under
the principles relating to industrial accidents or the regime governing motor accidents? Provide legal reasoning and authority in support of your answer.
(2) Would AB have a possible action in negligence against Dr GH if it
could be shown that if his injuries had been treated more quickly he would not have lost his leg?
Sample Solution
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