Human Resource Selection 9th Edition by Marianne Jennings

Exercise 10

Michael Kittell was an employee at Vermont Weatherboard. While he was operating a saw at work, a splinter flew into his eye and went into his cranium. Kittell filed suit against his employer because he was an inexperienced employee who was put to work straight away on the saw, without any training. He also said that his employer had removed all the safety devices from the saw thereby causing the injury to his eye and brain. Can Kittell recover from his employer? What about the manufacturer of the saw? [ Kittell v Vermont Weatherboard, Inc., 417 A.2d 926 (Vt. 1980)]