A young employee of a fast food restaurant injured himself and two other employees when he placed water in a pressurized deep fryer in an attempt to clean it, heated the water, and then opened the lid. His actions were contrary to explicit instructions in an employee handbook, a warning label on the fryer itself, and to the prior admonitions of a supervisor and two co-workers. The warnings from co-workers immediately preceded the accident. The employer determined that the employee had violated an important workplace safety rule and terminated the employee on that basis. 

1. What was the legal issue in this case? What did the court decide?

2. What is the voluntary abandonment doctrine? Should it have been applied to this case?

3. What are practical consequences of this decision? If the original decision by the court had been upheld?