Can an employer be held liable for injuries sustained by an employee as a result of negligence?

[12 Cal.4th 299] Looking at the matter with a slightly different focus, California courts have also asked whether the tort was, in a general way, foreseeable from the employee's duties. Respondeat superior liability should apply only to the types of injuries that are " 'as a practical matter are sure to occur in the conduct of the employer's enterprise.' " (Hinman v. Westinghouse Elec. Co., supra, 2 Cal.3d at p. 959, 88 Cal.Rptr. 188, 471 P.2d 988.) The employment, in other words, must be such as predictably to create the risk employees will commit intentional torts of the type for which liability is sought.