COLLIER v. HALL & HAM RIVER CO. LTD.

May 28, 1968 Negligence — Safe system of work — Safe means of access — Quarry — Employers transporting workman by barge across water to quarry — Place of work on bank — Access to place of work by stepping above turning propeller — Whether unsafe method of transport — Worker slipping injured by propeller — Whether employers negligent — Whether breach of statutory duty to provide “safe means of access” — Whether negligence eliminates defence of impracticability — Worker before accident doing heavy work — After accident worker permanently fit for light work only but earning substantially as much as before accident — Whether element in total award of damages — Mines and Quarries Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz.II, c.70), ss.109,157.