Stockovich

Defendants Ivan M. Ansite, James R. An-site and Maurice J. Ansite, are copartners doing business under the fictitious name of Acme Spray Painters.

They were under contract with the State of California, through the Department of Public Works, to clean and paint the Little Pico Creek Bridge in San Luis Obispo County. The contract gave the state the right to inspect the work to insure conformance to specified workmanship and materials. A resident engineer was charged with this duty. Plaintiff was assistant resident engineer at the locality in question.

Safety aspects of defendants’ equipment were under the supervision of the State Division of Industrial Safety. Defendant Arthur Alfred Ansite was superintendent at the job site.

Little Pico Creek Bridge is a 12 span, roll-beam, concrete deck bridge about 400 feet long and about 24 feet wide. A concrete curb runs on each side for its entire length with guard rails imbedded in the curbing.

Defendants used a movable scaffold in their cleaning and painting operation. This scaffold consisted of two carriages, one on each side of the bridge. These were wooden frames on wheels, straddling the guard rails and riding along the 'edges of the…