Torts/Personal Injury,
Construction
Mar. 5, 2025
Chain reaction: Who's really at fault in the scissor lift fall?
The legal issue in Camacho v. JLG Industries Inc. is whether JLG should be liable for a construction worker's injuries due to a design defect (lack of a self-closing gate and toe board) and inadequate warnings, or if the worker's failure to latch the safety chain was the result of negligence.
Garret D. Murai
Partner, Nomos LLP
Garret is the editor of the California Construction Law Blog at www.calconstructionlawblog.com.
A few years ago, I listened to an NPR segment called "What Can Kids Learn by Doing Dangerous Things?" It was about a summer program called the Tinkering School in the San Francisco Bay Area where kids can learn to build things using, among other things, power tools.
The founder of the program, Gever Tulley, also wrote a book entitled 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do). In his book, Tulley argues that, while well-intentioned...
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