{"id":"DUT-MS-013","kind":"duty","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of Mississippi (Smith, P.J., for the Court)","authority":"Mississippi common law of master and servant; Miss. R. Civ. P. 20(a) (joinder)","instrument":"Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Travis, 808 So. 2d 928 (Miss. 2002), No. 2000-IA-01074-SCT (Feb. 28, 2002)","title":"Employer\u0027s \u0027non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work\u0027 (claims of ninety-nine employees arising from the employer\u0027s policy of not warning or protecting its workers from a workplace hazard held properly joined)","dateIssued":"2002-02-28","effective":"standing (common law)","end":"standing","startDate":"2002-02-28","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","EMP"],"addressees":["employers"],"clause":"Travis argues that these claims arise out of ICRR\u0027s \u0027policy of not warning or protecting its workers from the hazards of asbestos exposure, and breaching its non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work.\u0027... b) ICRR\u0027s negligence in failing to provide asbestos exposed employees\u0027 respirators, protective clothing and/or proper ventilation","enforcement":"Tort liability for breach (outside the workers\u0027 compensation exclusivity where applicable)","functions":[],"notes":"The Court, in holding the employees\u0027 claims properly joined, treats the employer\u0027s failure to warn of and protect against a workplace hazard (respirators, protective clothing, ventilation) as the breach of a single \u0027non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work\u0027 (¶¶ 24-25, at 935-36); the passage recites the plaintiffs\u0027 framing, which the Court adopts as the common question of law and fact. Character as recorded: adjudication (workplace duty construed).","sourceUrl":"https://static.case.law/so2d/808/html/0928-01.html","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":221071,"grade":"primary","character":"adjudication","description":"","collection":"DUT-MS","url":"/library/DUT-MS-013","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MS-013","citation":"Supreme Court of Mississippi (Smith, P.J., for the Court), Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Travis, 808 So. 2d 928 (Miss. 2002), No. 2000-IA-01074-SCT (Feb. 28, 2002) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MS-013)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["DUT-MS-014"]}