on the ground. Only Jones, who was wearing two pairs of gloves, was not injured.
The trial court found LP & L and DOTD negligent because they failed to either remove or insulate the uninsulated high power line crossing the bridge construction site. The court found both defendants knew or should have known of the danger posed by the uninsulated high power line crossing the construction site and that they had a duty to take steps to protect the construction workers. Neither defendant took any of a number of possible actions to protect the workers and were found negligent. The court further found the acts of Boh Bros. and its supervisory employees were beyond gross and wanton negligence sufficient to place it into the category of an intentional tortEsco, 549 So.2d 840 (La.1989).
LP & L and DOTD were involved with all aspects of this construction project since the late 1970's. The project called for building an elevated expressway from the Greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge to points west of the Harvey Canal.
Peters Road and Destrehan Avenue are streets running parallel to the Harvey CanalPeters Road on the east bank and Destrehan Avenue on the west bank of the canal. Prior to the start of this project, an uninsulated high power line ran along each side of the Harvey Canal. In 1979 a crane struck the Peters Road line near pier 178, the same pier where the accident before us occurred, causing a power outage from the Westbank Expressway to Fourth Street. In 1980, both the