U Court of Appeals imprisons that ...

U Court of Appeals imprisons that a design firm which had no employee at the site was not responsible for the safety of contractor employee

For the secondary time in as many years, an attempt to make architects and engineers enthrall to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations has been thwarted -- this time by way of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston.

The "Simpson case," which first made of recent origins in 1988 and takes its name from the defendant engineering firm, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger of Arlington, Mass., spotlighted a major liability affect for ...