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4731 REVIEW DENIED A public entity may owe a duty to an employee of an independent contractor it hires if it retains control over safety conditions at the worksite and exercises its retained control in a way that affirmatively contributes to the employee's injury, but only if there is some statutory basis for such liability; Government Code section 815.4 provides a statutory basis by providing a public entity is liable for injury proximately caused by the tort of an independent contractor to the same extent a private person would be.CitationMcCARTY v DOT (Retained Control) 164 CA4 955 [See: GovC 810 etseq; Privette v SuperCt 5 C4 689, T/AT 9/93; Hooker v DOT 27 C4 198, T/AT 3/02]
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