Expect the big general construction contractors to push back big time in courts.
Specialty sub-contractors have the equipment, capacity, engineers, fabrication and installation crews which a general contractor cannot afford on permanent payroll.
As a small specialty design/construct company, I sub-contracted concrete work. This ruling sounds as if the chain of my responsibilty extends to sub-contractor,then concrete/supplier/transit mixer and so on.
How can I possibly know all the laws and regulations governing large scale concrete suppliers?
Guy falls into dry component mixing tower because of whatever and I get named as defendant in a shotgun complaint? Or some hairy fairy there decides he’s feeling womanly one week and I part of the discrimination suit?
What I’m going to love to do, if that happens, is go in and see who the owners and executives of those big firms donated money to.
For a lot of people getting screwed by stuff like this they’re just reaping what they’ve sown. Just with a lot of collateral damage.
The people who are really going to feel this are the Kelly Temp Services of the world. Especially those working in Amazon warehouses and other light industrial facilities where the incidence of injury is high.