Solis
Solis v. Clean Harbors, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ABRAHAM SOLIS, Case No. 20-cv-02660-AGT
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’
v. MOTION FOR SUMMARY
JUDGMENT
CLEAN HARBORS, INC., et al., Re: Dkt. No. 35 Defendants.
12 Abraham Solis, a temporary contract employee of Aerotek, Inc., was assigned to Clean Harbors Industrial Services, Inc. (“Clean Harbors”) to work as a Field Technician. On the first day of his Clean Harbors assignment, Solis was injured while performing maintenance work on heavy machinery at Clean Harbors’s Benicia, California facility. After Solis began receiving workers’ compensation benefits from Aerotek, he brought this negligence action against Aerotek and Clean Harbors, seeking further recovery for the same injury. Defendants now move for summary judgment on the basis that California’s Workers’ Compensation Act provides Solis’s excusive remedy for his workplace injury. For the reasons that follow, Defendants’ motion is granted. I. BACKGROUND …