Jackson v. Eastman Chemical Company et al
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ORDER AND OPINION denying 126 Motion for Reconsideration. Signed by Honorable J Michelle Childs on 5/20/2019.(asni, )
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
ORANGEBURG DIVISION
Jacob S. Jackson,
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Plaintiff,
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v.
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Eastman Chemical Company and Mundy
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Maintenance Services and Operations, LLC, )
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Defendants.
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Civil Action No.: 5:17-cv-01015-JMC
ORDER AND OPINION
Plaintiff Jacob S. Jackson filed this action alleging that he was injured as a result of the
negligence of Defendants Eastman Chemical Company (“Eastman”) and Mundy Maintenance
Services and Operations, LLC (“Mundy”) (together “Defendants”). (ECF No. 1.)
This matter is before the court on Plaintiff’s Motion for Reconsideration (ECF No. 126) of
the Order entered on October 23, 2018 (the “October Order”), granting Eastman’s Motion to
Dismiss (ECF No. 53). (ECF No. 112 at 19–20.) Eastman opposes Plaintiff’s Motion asserting
that the October Order “correctly granted Eastman’s Motion to Dismiss.” (ECF No. 127 at 10.)
For the reasons set forth below, the court DENIES Plaintiff’s Motion for Reconsideration.
I.
RELEVANT BACKGROUND TO PENDING MOTION
This case arises out of an industrial accident that occurred on December 6, 2016, at a
chemical manufacturing facility (the “Facility”) located “on the banks of the Congaree River near
Sandy Run a few miles northeast of Gaston in Calhoun County, South Carolina.” (ECF No. 58 at
2.) Eastman operated the Facility from 1967 until 20ll manufacturing polyethylene terephthalate
(“PET”), a material “commonly used in soda bottles.” (ECF No. 1 at 3 ¶¶ 9–11.) On January 31,
2011, Eastman sold specified parts of the Facility to DAK Americas, LLC (“DAK”), “a subsidiary
of Alpek S.A.B. de C.V., a Mexican chemical manufacturing company.” (Id. ¶ 11.) “DAK
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purchased . . . polymer and chemical manufacturing lines, certain on-site utilities and services to
support such operations, but specifically excluded some retained facilities at the Plant.” (ECF No.
58 at 3.) “Among the retained assets [of Eastman] were: 1,000 acres of land, six to ten buildings
and four production lines out of thirteen which are making substantially similar products to those
produced prior to the sale (the ‘Retained Assets’).” (Id. (citing ECF No. 78-1 at 29:14–30:25,
32:3–14, 53:1–25 & ECF No. 78-2 at 28:13–29:9, 53:3–15).) Additionally, “[w]hen Eastman sold
the Facility to DAK, nearly all of Eastman’s 400 employees at the site became DAK employees at
the time of the sale and continued doing the same jobs.” (ECF No. 53 at 4 (citing ECF No. 78-1
at 57:1–23).) As a result, DAK’s employees “operate[d] and maintain[ed] Eastman’s retained lines
the same way that they did while they were employed by Eastman.” (ECF No. 78-1 at 57:13–17.)
“Two contracts between Eastman and DAK memorialize that agreement.” (ECF No. 53 at
5.) “First, under the Operating Agreement, Eastman pays DAK to provide its employees to operate
the Eastman Retained lines, which generally run twenty-four hours a day.” (Id. (referencing ECF
No. 53-3).) “The operators report to supervisors within DAK’s chain of command, and the DAK
Area Manager serves as the liaison to Eastman.” (Id.) “Second, there is a separate Services
Agreement, under which Eastman pays DAK to provide, among other things, employees from
DAK’s maintenance department to perform maintenance and repairs on the Retained Lines.” (Id.
(referencing ECF No. 53-4).) “DAK’s employees, including Plaintiff [Jackson], were Eastman’s
operations and maintenance workforce at the time of the Incident pursuant to the Operations
Agreement and Services Agreement.” (Id. at 6 (citations omitted).) As an operations and
maintenance worker, Jacob Jackson did the same type of work for DAK after the sale as he did for
Eastman before the sale. (ECF No. 78-1 at 60:1–6.)
After purchasing the Facility, DAK contracted with Mundy to “provide[] maintenance
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services at the site.” (ECF No. 78-2 at 126:19–20.) Employees of Mundy were asked on December
3, 2016, “to heat a drain pipe [] near the Pump with a torch flame.” (ECF No. 55 at 3.)
On December 6, 2016, Jackson, along with DAK co-workers, Kevin Vann and Alton Ray
Zeigler, were assigned to perform preventative maintenance on line A, one of the four Eastman
“Retained Asset” production lines, which involved draining the AC-11 loop to clean out any
molten material and pulling/separating the AC-11 pump from its housing to replace a leaking seal.
(ECF No. 78-1 at 109:5–11, 114:9–14, 115:7–15 & 135:2–24.) During the performance of this
maintenance, Jackson was injured as “the result of an explosion which covered [] Jackson in the
superheated chemical monomer and propelled an industrial pump, which weighs approximately
300 pounds, almost nine feet across a workspace before coming to rest as it put a hole in a cement
block wall.” (ECF No. 58 at 1.)
As a result of the foregoing, Jackson filed an action in this court on April 19, 2017, alleging
claims against Eastman for negligence and negligent failure to warn and against Mundy for
negligence. (ECF No. 1 at 8 ¶ 57–12 ¶ 75.) Additionally, Jackson alleged that he is entitled to an
award of punitive and exemplary damages. (Id. at 12 ¶ 76–13 ¶ 79.) After engaging in courtordered jurisdictional discovery with Jackson (see ECF No. 38 at 1 ¶ 2), Eastman filed a Motion
to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction on November 30, 2017, asserting that Jackson
was a “statutory employee” of Eastman under the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act (the
“Act”), S.C. Code §§ 42-1-10 to -19-50 (2017), such that the Act is Jackson’s exclusive remedy.
(ECF No. 53.) In his December 21, 2017 Response in Opposition, Jackson expressly did not agree
that he was Eastman’s statutory employee for purposes of its Motion. (ECF No. 58.) Thereafter,
the court entered the October Order granting Eastman’s Motion to Dismiss. (ECF No. 112.)
On February 26, 2019, Jackson filed the instant Motion for Reconsideration. (ECF No.
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126.)
II.
LEGAL STANDARD AND ANALYSIS
In the October Order, the court made the following observations in granting Eastman’s
Motion to Dismiss (ECF No. 53):
To determine whether Jackson was a statutory employee of Eastman at the time []
he was injured, the court considered the parties’ evidence concerning Eastman’s
general trade, business, or occupation. See Poch, 747 S.E.2d at 761 (“[T]his Court
has the power and duty to review the entire record and decide the jurisdictional
facts in accord with the preponderance of the evidence.” (citation omitted)). Upon
its review, the court observes that the parties dispute what is Eastman’s business,
trade, or occupation. Eastman asserts that it is in the business of producing
specialty chemicals. (ECF No. 78-1 at 22:21–23; ECF No. 78-2 at 31:10–13,
166:19–167:4.) Jackson asserts that Eastman is “a chemical product sales
company, selling chemicals produced by DAK employees on equipment owned by
Eastman” because it “does not receive the raw materials, does not have any
employees capable of running the operations of the lines, does not remove the
product from the line, and does not place the product into shipping containers.”
(ECF No. 59 at 23 (citing ECF No. 78-2 at 92:15–93:19)). Despite the parties’
contrasting positions, there is no dispute of fact that Eastman’s business requires
the presence of chemical product and without such chemical product, Eastman
cannot sell or produce anything. Moreover, caselaw does not necessarily require
that such chemical product be exclusively produced by Eastman’s employees. See
Singleton, 533 F. Supp. at 890 (“[A] person is performing the trade, business or
occupation of the employer if the person contracts with the owner to perform a duty
which is essential to the function of the owner’s continued business despite the fact
the owner may never have performed the same chore with his own employees.”
(citations omitted)).
On the day Jackson was injured, there is also no dispute of fact that he was
performing preventative maintenance on one of the lines that produces chemicals
for Eastman. (ECF No. 78-1 at 112:2–117:2.) The appellate courts of South
Carolina have held that maintenance considerations are an important part of a
statutory employer’s trade, business, or occupation. In Marchbanks v. Duke Power
Co., 2 S.E.2d 825 (S.C. 1939), “the [South Carolina Supreme] Court found that an
independent contractor who was hired to paint telephone poles on behalf of Duke
Power was a statutory employee under the Workmen’s Compensation Law on the
basis that Marchbanks was engaged in part of the defendant’s business, because the
maintenance of utility poles was necessary to the distribution of electricity.”
Singleton, 533 F. Supp. at 890 (citing Marchbanks, 2 S.E.2d at 837). In Boseman
v. Pac. Mills, 79, 8 S.E.2d 878, (S.C. 1940), the South Carolina Supreme Court
stated as follows in finding that the maintenance of the water tank was an integral
part of the mill’s business for fire prevention purposes:
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The tank was an integral part of the mill business. There was also
testimony to the effect that the mill desired that the work on the inside of
the tank be completed as soon as possible so that its every day, ordinary
service, that of fire protection, could be resumed, it being shown that the
mill depended upon this tank for such protection. The very nature of the
work done by the mill, that of the manufacture of cotton into cloth,
especially required the best of protection against fire. Hence, this tank was
particularly necessary and essential in the operation and carrying on of the
business of the mill. It, therefore, follows that the painting of the tank was
such a part of the trade, business or occupation of the Pacific Mills as
would constitute Martin a subcontractor and thus render the mill liable to
the beneficiary of Boseman for payment of compensation.
Id. at 880. In Bridges v. Wyandotte Worsted Co., 132 S.E.2d 18 (S.C. 1963), the
Supreme Court of South Carolina again held that maintenance was part of the trade,
business, or occupation of the statutory employer:
In the present case, the defendant was engaged in the manufacture of
woolen goods. Its machinery was operated by electricity derived in part
from its own hydro-electric plant and in part by purchase from Duke
Power Company. The work here involved was the repair or replacement
of the transmission line owned by the defendant and located on its
property, over which electric current, necessary for the operation of its
business, was brought into its plant from Duke Power Company. These
lines had been replaced on a previous occasion, and customarily
maintained, by a qualified crew regularly employed by the defendant.
Because the regular employees of the defendant had been overworked and
needed rest, the defendant contracted with Collins Electric Company,
plaintiff’s employer, to make the needed replacements on its transmission
lines. The replacement of the lines was made necessary by an overload
placed upon them by the addition of machinery in defendant’s mill. It is
reasonably inferable from the record that the work of replacing the
transmission lines in question was [] an unusual or extraordinary
undertaking, but one customarily done by defendant’s employees who
were maintained for such purposes. The maintenance and repair of its
electrical system was, therefore, made a part of the work done by the
defendant in the prosecution of its business of manufacturing woolen
goods.
Id. at 23.
Therefore, upon consideration of the foregoing caselaw in the context of the facts
presented by the parties, the court is persuaded that maintenance on a line that
produces chemicals that Eastman sells is an important part of Eastman’s trade,
business, or occupation. E.g., Singleton, 533 F. Supp. at 891 (“The continued
maintenance and repair of these electrical lines were absolutely essential to the
continued operation of the textile plant.”). Accordingly, the court finds that Jacob
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[Jackson] was a statutory employee of Eastman.1
(ECF No. 112 at 11–14.)
Jackson seeks reconsideration of the October Order pursuant to Rules 54(b), 60(b)(1),
and/or 60(b)(5) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
A.
Standard for Relief Pursuant to Rules 54(b), 60(b)(1), and 60(b)(5)
Rule 54(b) provides the following:
When an action presents more than one claim for relief—whether as a claim,
counterclaim, crossclaim, or third-party claim—or when multiple parties are
involved, the court may direct entry of a final judgment as to one or more, but fewer
than all, claims or parties only if the court expressly determines that there is no just
reason for delay. Otherwise, any order or other decision, however designated, that
adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all
the parties does not end the action as to any of the claims or parties and may be
revised at any time before the entry of a judgment adjudicating all the claims and
all the parties’ rights and liabilities.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 54(b).
Under Rule 54(b), the “district court retains the power to reconsider and modify its
interlocutory judgments . . . at any time prior to final judgment when such is warranted.” Am.
Canoe Ass’n v. Murphy Farms, Inc., 326 F.3d 505, 514-15 (4th Cir. 2003); see also Moses H. Cone
Mem. Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 12 (1983) (noting that “every order short of a
final decree is subject to reopening at the discretion of the district judge”). The Fourth Circuit has
offered little guidance on the standard for evaluating a Rule 54(b) motion, but has held motions
under Rule 54(b) are “not subject to the strict standards applicable to motions for reconsideration
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“An activity needs to meet just one of the three tests outlined in Edens for an employee to be a
statutory employee under the” Act. Jarman v. Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Auth., No. 9:15cv-00356-DCN, 2017 WL 1881330, at *3 n.2 (D.S.C. May 9, 2017) (citing Edens, 597 S.E.2d at
868). Because the court finds that Jackson was a statutory employee of Eastman since the
maintenance work he was performing at his death was an important part of Eastman’s trade,
business, or occupation, the court is not required to address the second or third statutory employee
tests outlined in Edens.
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of a final judgment.” Am. Canoe Ass’n, 326 F.3d at 514; see also Fayetteville Investors v.
Commercial Builders, Inc., 936 F.2d 1462, 1472 (4th Cir. 1991) (the Court found it “unnecessary
to thoroughly express our views on the interplay of Rules 60, 59, and Rule 54”). In this regard,
district courts in the Fourth Circuit, in analyzing the merits of a Rule 54 motion, look to the
standards of motions under Rule 59 for guidance. See U.S. Home Corp. v. Settlers Crossing, LLC,
C/A No. DKC 08-1863, 2012 WL 5193835, at *2 (D. Md. Oct. 18, 2012); R.E. Goodson Constr.
Co., Inc. v. Int’l Paper Co., C/A No. 4:02-4184-RBH, 2006 WL 1677136, at *1 (D.S.C. June 14,
2006); Akeva L.L.C. v. Adidas Am., Inc., 385 F. Supp. 2d 559, 565–66 (M.D.N.C. 2005).
Therefore, reconsideration under Rule 54 is appropriate on the following grounds: (1) to follow an
intervening change in controlling law; (2) on account of new evidence; or (3) to correct a clear
error of law or prevent manifest injustice. Beyond Sys., Inc. v. Kraft Foods, Inc., C/A No. PJM08-409, 2010 WL 3059344, at *2 (D. Md. Aug. 4, 2010) (“This three-part test shares the same
three elements as the Fourth Circuit's test for amending an earlier judgment under Rule 59(e), but
the elements are not applied with the same force when analyzing an[] interlocutory order.”) (citing
Am. Canoe Ass’n, 326 F.3d at 514).
Rule 60(b) allows the court to relieve “a party . . . from a final judgment, order, or
proceeding” due to (1) “mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect”; (5) a satisfied,
released, or discharged judgment; or (6) “any other reason that justifies relief.” Fed. R. Civ. P.
60(b); see also United States v. Winestock, 340 F.3d 200, 203–4 (4th Cir. 2003). Rule 60(b) “does
not authorize a motion merely for reconsideration of a legal issue.” United States v. Williams, 674
F.2d 310, 312 (4th Cir. 1982). “Where the motion is nothing more than a request that the district
court change its mind . . . it is not authorized by Rule 60(b).” Id. at 313. “A motion for
reconsideration under Rule 60(b) is addressed to the sound discretion of the district court and . . .
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[is] generally granted only upon a showing of exceptional circumstances.” Lyles, 2016 WL
1427324, at *1 (citation and internal quotation marks omitted).
B.
The Parties’ Arguments
In his Motion, Jackson asserts that reconsideration of the October Order “is warranted
because the recent South Carolina Court of Appeals Opinion in Keene, et al. v. CNA Holdings,
LLC[, App. Case No. 2016-000227, 2019 WL 575556 (S.C. Ct. App. Feb. 13, 2019), reh’g denied,]
constitutes a change in controlling law or at the very least a clarification of controlling law relied
upon by the Court in this case.” (ECF No. 126 at 4–5.) Jackson argues that in Keene, “the South
Carolina Court of Appeals held that it had ‘correctly determined that even though the maintenance
work [plaintiff] performed was essential for conduct of manufacturing polyester fiber, it does not
mean that equipment maintenance was a part or process of manufacturing business.’” (Id. at 5–6
(quoting Keene, 2019 WL 575556, at *4).) Jackson further argues that applying the Keene
reasoning to the facts of the instant case results in the conclusion that “[a]lthough the maintenance
work performed by Plaintiff may have been important to Eastman’s manufacturing business, it
does not follow that such maintenance was a ‘part or process’ of Eastman’s manufacturing
business at the Facility.” (Id. at 8.) Therefore, Jackson asserts that the October Order contains
clear error and the court “has an opportunity to correct what is now an inequitable and manifest
injustice.” (Id.)
Eastman opposes the Motion for Reconsideration asserting that the Keene decision does
not affect the October Order because:
(1) The statutory employer analysis is highly fact-specific, and the unique facts of
this case differ substantially from the facts in Keene. (2) The work performed by
Jackson was a “part or process” of Eastman’s manufacturing business. (3) DAK’s
employees and Eastman’s employees performed the same maintenance and repair
work on the production lines in the facility. (4) In addition to the grounds stated in
the Court’s Order, Eastman also meets the third test for determining whether the
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activity of a worker is sufficient to make him a statutory employee. (5) It would be
inequitable for the Court to reverse its prior Order. (6) The procedural posture of
the Keene case is uncertain.
(ECF No. 127 at 1–2, 4–11.)
C.
The Court’s Review
In the October Order, the court found that Jackson was a statutory employee of Eastman
because he was injured performing maintenance on a line that produced chemicals the selling of
which was “an important part of Eastman’s trade, business, or occupation.”2 (ECF No. 112 at 13–
14.)
In the instant Motion, Jackson seeks reconsideration of the October Order to account for
an intervening change in controlling law, to correct a clear error of law, and to prevent a manifest
injustice. (ECF No. 126 at 4–5, 8.) Jackson generally asserts that he is entitled to relief from the
October Order based on the South Carolina Court of Appeals’ decision in Keene and the South
Carolina Supreme Court’s opinions in Olmstead v Shakespeare, 581 S.E.2d 483 (S.C. 2003), and
Abbott v. The Ltd., Inc., 526 S.E.2d 513 (S.C. 2000). In these cases, statutory employer-employee
status was denied in the context of the following circumstances: (1) in Abbott, the South Carolina
Supreme Court held that a retailer “recipient of goods delivered by a common carrier is not the
statutory employer of the common carrier’s employee,” 526 S.E.2d at 514; (2) in Olmstead, the
South Carolina Supreme Court found that an employee of a common carrier was not a statutory
As the court observed in the October Order, the parties dispute what is Eastman’s business.
“Eastman asserts that it is in the business of producing specialty chemicals.” (ECF No. 112 at 11
(citing ECF No. 78-1 at 22:21–23; ECF No. 78-2 at 31:10–13, 166:19–167:4).) “Jackson asserts
that Eastman is ‘a chemical product sales company, selling chemicals produced by DAK
employees on equipment owned by Eastman’ because it ‘does not receive the raw materials, does
not have any employees capable of running the operations of the lines, does not remove the product
from the line, and does not place the product into shipping containers.’” (Id. at 12 (citing ECF No.
59 at 23).) From the foregoing, it is still reasonable to extrapolate that Eastman’s business is
selling chemicals manufactured in production lines that it owns.
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employee of a business that designed and manufactured fiberglass products, 581 S.E.2d at 486;
and (3) in Keene, the South Carolina Court of Appeals concluded that a maintenance and repair
worker was not the statutory employee of a company that manufactured polyester fibers, 2019 WL
575556, at *7. The defining characteristic of each decision appears to be “whether the type of
work performed by the worker is the same type of work ‘the owner’ has established as its
business.” Keene, 2019 WL 575556, at *4.
At the outset of this review, the court acknowledges that “[a]s a federal court sitting in
diversity, [][it has] an obligation to apply the jurisprudence of South Carolina’s highest court, the
South Carolina Supreme Court.” Private Mortg. Inv. Servs., Inc. v. Hotel & Club Assocs., Inc.,
296 F.3d 308, 312 (4th Cir. 2002). In this regard, the court is constrained by Abbott, Olmstead,
and their progeny, Keene, to conclude that in South Carolina, maintenance and repair work of
equipment by the employees of an independent contractor, without something more, generally
does not qualify as part of a manufacturer’s and/or seller of goods’ trade, business, or occupation
under any of the three established tests for statutory employment. Cf. Edens v. Bellini, 597 S.E.2d
863, 868 (S.C. Ct. App. 2004) (“(1) is the activity an important part of the owner’s business or
trade; (2) is the activity a necessary, essential, and integral part of the owner’s trade, business, or
occupation; or (3) has the identical activity previously been performed by the owner’s
employees?”). However, the state appellate court in all three decisions acknowledged that “each
case must be decided on its own facts.” Olmstead, 581 S.E.2d at 486 (citing Glass v. Dow Chem.
Co., 482 S.E.2d 49, 51 (S.C. 1997); Abbott, 526 S.E.2d at 514 (citing Glass); Keene, 2019 WL
575556, at *3 (citing Glass, Olmstead).
In this case, there is no dispute that Jackson and nearly all of DAK’s 400 employees at the
manufacturing facility were formerly Eastman’s employees.
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(ECF No. 78-1 at 57:1–23.)
Moreover, Jackson did the same type of maintenance work for DAK after the sale as he did for
Eastman before the sale. (Id. at 60:1–24.) As a result, the court agrees with Eastman that if it “had
never sold the plant to DAK, . . . Jackson would have been performing this same task as an Eastman
employee on the day the incident occurred.” (ECF No. 127 at 8.) This is the inference that
differentiates this case from Keene and its parents.3 To this point, the court observes that the
maintenance performed by Jackson as an Eastman employee before January 31, 2011, was just as
important to Eastman’s business as the maintenance he performed on December 6, 2016, as an
employee of DAK. Therefore, the court’s conclusion remains unchanged that Jackson was a
statutory employee of Eastman because “maintenance on a line that produces chemicals that
Eastman sells is an important part of Eastman’s trade, business, or occupation.”4 (ECF No. 112 at
14.) Accordingly, the court must deny Jackson’s Motion for Reconsideration.
The court observes that Jackson unsuccessfully attempts to show that the relationship between
the parties in Keene was not any different than the one presented in this case. (See ECF No. 129
at 2 n.1 (“However, Celanese’s arguments to the trial court [in Keene] in its Motion for Judgment
Not Withstanding the Verdict should be considered in evaluating the accuracy of this assertion by
Eastman [that ‘[t]he relationship between DAK and Eastman, however, differs substantially from
the relationship between Celanese and Daniel in Keene’]: ‘The evidence showed that the activity
performed by decedent and his employer was a necessary, essential part of CNA Holdings’ plant’s
operations, without which, the plant would not have been operational. Further, the evidence
showed that the activity performed by decedent and his employer was also performed by CNA
Holdings’ own employees. Without this work, no polyester fiber would have been produced as no
machines would have been running.’” (quoting ECF No. 129-1 at 3)).)
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As further support for this conclusion, the court observes that Eastman and DAK expressly
contracted in the Operating Agreement for DAK’s employees to be considered statutory
employees of Eastman. (See ECF No. 53-3 at 6–7 (“The Parties agree that Eastman shall provide
reimbursement to the Purchaser for worker’s compensation insurance for all members of the
Leased Work Force, which insurance shall name Purchaser and Eastman as co-insureds. Purchaser
and those employees of Purchaser who compose the Leased Work Force shall be considered
employees of Eastman ONLY for purposes of the worker’s compensation laws of the State of
South Carolina and for no other purposes. . . . The Parties further agree that the foregoing
provisions are expressly intended to afford both Purchaser and Eastman the benefits of the
statutory immunity provided by the South Carolina Worker’s Compensation Act.”).)
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III.
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, the court DENIES the Motion for Reconsideration of Plaintiff
Jacob S. Jackson. (ECF No. 126.)
IT IS SO ORDERED.
United States District Judge
May 20, 2019
Columbia, South Carolina
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