In reviewing conflicting state intermediate appellate courtroom rulings, a divided Ohio Supreme Courtroom majority held for the primary time that the absence of a hearth extinguisher or different security gear in a faculty could possibly be a “bodily defect” such that an exception to immunity may exist.
Within the case at challenge, the household of two feminine college students filed a grievance in opposition to the Greenville Metropolis Colleges, together with the board of schooling, the highschool principal, and a highschool science instructor in Might 2020. The scholars suffered extreme burns in December 2019 when a bottle of isopropyl alcohol caught fireplace and exploded in science class, in accordance with the majority opinion filed Wednesday.
