A Rhode Island State Statute Requires Machinery in Industrial Plants

question 37

Multiple Choice

A Rhode Island state statute requires machinery in industrial plants to include automatic shut-off switches accessible to each employee working on the machine.Steel Company's equipment does not have the switches.Trudy,a Steel employee,suffers an injury that an accessible shut-off switch would have prevented.Trudy's best theory for recovery is

• A)assault.
• B)assumption of risk.
• C)invasion of privacy.
• D)negligence.

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