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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Grogan finds the circuit court improperly granted summary judgment to the general contractor in a lawsuit from a painting subcontractor employee who fell down an exposed elevator shaft at the contractor's residential remodel construction site, causing injuries requiring cranial and spinal surgeries. The independent contractor rule from Wisconsin Supreme Court precedent does not shield the contractor from liability for the employee's injuries, in part because the only written contract it entered related to the project, which it signed with the company who provided the elevator, held that the contractor was solely responsible for the safety of all workers and subcontractors with relation to the elevator shaft before the elevator was installed. Because there also remain disputed facts about whether the two-by-four guardrails installed on the shaft and other safety precautions protect the contractor from the employee's negligence and safe place claims, the contractor cannot be dismissed, but the part of the circuit court's summary judgment order dismissing the contractor's employee individually is upheld. All other matters, including the claims of an insurance company, will be handled on remand. Reversed in part.