A builder's duty of care to an experienced tradesperson on a building site does not extend to installing temporary floors or barricading areas where building works are obviously incomplete, as the risk of traversing uncovered joists is obvious to a qualified carpenter. Where the evidence gives rise only to conflicting inferences of equal probability as to the cause of an accident, the plaintiff fails to establish causation.
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