in succession June 1, 1994, Andres Melendez Jr a civil employee of the U Navy's Public Works Center was installing an industrial circuit breaker in an energized switchgear in a vault at the Norfolk Naval Base when it explod Melendez and his supervisor were seriously consume ed and his co-worker was killed. An engineer hired by way of the Navy after the accident conclud that the cause of the explosion was the absorption of moisture on the insulation used in the circuit breaker.
Melendez filed a work liability suit against Cooper Industries Inc., the successor to Arrow Hart Inc., the