Facts:
The employee was injured whilst she was working at the weapons munition’s factory when a shell exploded.
Outcome: Not liable
Legal Principle:
Rylands v Fletcher – the thing escaped and caused damage
To be liable in Rylands v Fletcher there must be an escape. Here the thing (bullet shell case) did not escape. An escape involves ‘’escape from a place where the defendant has occupation of or control over to a place which is outside his occupation of control’’.
