(DOWNLOAD) "Cooper v. Heintz Manufacturing Company" by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Cooper v. Heintz Manufacturing Company
- Author : Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 21, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
Description
This case has to do with the mysterious element of electricity which, although invisible to the eye, wields a force capable of illuminating the world, propelling machines of fabulous complexity, transporting incalculable weights, and destroying or crippling life. The defendant Heintz Manufacturing Company employed electricity as motive power in its large plant in Philadelphia, maintaining and operating in this connection six transformers which were installed in a structure attached to the south side of one of its buildings here called Building No. 42. In order to protect workmen and others on the property from the dangerous properties of the transformers, the ominous mechanism was shut off from the rest of the plant by a brick wall on the north side and, on the east, west and south sides, by a heavy metal screening surmounted by a solid corrugated material known as transite. Copper tubes named "bus bars" carried electric current to the tune of 13,200 volts from the transformers to the factory buildings. Uninsulated, these tubes offered catastrophe to human contact. The transformer room, on stilt-like columns, stood 20 feet 4 inches above the ground and measured 25 by 20 feet with a ceiling 14 feet high. The bus bars ran parallel to and 42 inches below the ceiling.