An employer's non-delegable duty of care cannot be discharged by sending an employee to work at a remote location under another's control; the employer will be liable if the safety measures allowed to remain at the workplace were unreasonably unsafe. A host premises operator that exercises a coordinating role over a contractor's employee's work and adopts an employer-like role may owe a duty of care regarding criminal acts of third parties, particularly where the employee is in a specially vulnerable situation. Motor vehicle accidents caused by excessive alcohol consumption attributable to tort-induced PTSD are within the chain of causation from the original tort.
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