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Title: Guglielmo v. Klausner Supply Co.
Author : Supreme Court of Connecticut
Release Date : January 17, 1969
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 65 KB

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This case arose from circumstances
which may be briefly summarized. Seligman and
Sons, Inc., plumbing and heating contractors,
hereinafter referred to as Seligman, purchased from
the defendant wholesaler a large can of a product
known as Coatatub, which is used in connection with
plumbing and heating installations. Sometime thereafter
Seligman hired the plaintiff as a plumber. On May
26, 1964, during Seligman's work in the construction
of an apartment house in Wallingford, Robert Treat,
another employee of Seligman, was furnished the
can of Coatatub and for two or three hours applied
the contents to a number of bathtubs on the first
floor of the building under construction. While
Treat was doing this work on the first floor, the
plaintiff was assigned by Seligman to work in the
basement connecting the water main to bathtubs and
toilets. The plaintiff had neither heard of Coatatub
nor seen a can of it before this incident, and he knew
nothing about the product. After working for about
twenty minutes in a basement room underneath a
bathtub and into which room pipes from a first-floor
bathroom extended, the plaintiff noticed an odor
similar to banana oil but did not attach any
significance to the existence of the odor. He
continued to work for an additional ten to twenty
minutes after becoming aware of the odor. He then
left the basement and went up a ladder to obtain
additional material. As he did so he began to feel
shaky and dizzy, and when he reached the top of the
ladder he found that he could not walk and had to
crawl out on his hands and knees. He was dizzy
and could not see and fell against a tree. A fellow
employee put him into an automobile and drove him to
the office of a doctor. The doctor concluded that
the plaintiff had been rendered unconscious from
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inhaling fumes containing some plastic solvents and
had sustained a wrenching injury to his shoulder as
a result of his fall.