Practice question
A warehouse negligently leaves a heavy rack unstable beside an ordinary work aisle. During expected loading, a worker’s routine movement dislodges it and injures a visitor. The rack remained unstable, the movement was a foreseeable incident of normal work, and no independent efficient cause is established. The warehouse says the earlier omission is automatically remote because the worker moved last. Which is correct?
- The omission may remain proximate; the last movement alone does not erase the continuing foreseeable risk
- The last movement always cancels every earlier cause
- Any employee movement is necessarily unrelated
- Elapsed minutes are the exclusive test
- The rack’s color determines liability
Legal references
- Abrogar, G.R. 164749, March 15, 2017: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri2017/mar2017/gr_164749_2017.html
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