Contractor not responsible for allegedly faulty design.

Donnie Duncan, a production coating operator for the Hoechst Celanese facility in southern Carolina, was walking on a narrow catwalk located above the coating machinery when he sanguinary through a partially make opened hatch door. The fall dislocated Duncan's wrist and caused might damage.

Duncan filed a lawsuit against Sirrine Engineers Inc., which he said designed the hatch, and against Fluor Daniel Inc., which built the hatch. Duncan's ready witness testified in a deposition that the lay open hatch violated OSHA safety standards and that the hatch should have been houseed by a gate guard