On a spring day in 2006, Michael Boguess went to help his brother Todd pour concrete at a friend's house. By that evening, the 39- year-old mill worker found himself lying in a hospital bed, paralyzed from the neck down. Boguess' life changed in a matter of seconds when a falling tree limb struck him on the head.
The widow of a man who plunged more than 50 feet to his death in an industrial crane accident while working on the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in late 2009 filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Jackson County Circuit Court. Laura Goodman and the couple's two daughters are suing the makers of the hydraulic lift and valves, JLG Industries and HydraForce Inc., respectively, which they allege contributed to the equipment failure that caused Ryan Goodman's death. The family also is suing United Rentals Inc., which provided what the lawsuit refers to as a "Boom Lift" to the construction site that day, as well as three of its employees.
CHICAGO, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- A Cook County jury on Wednesday (Oct. 13, 2010) awarded a 51-year-old carpenter $1.477 million in a catastrophic construction site injury arising out of an accident that occurred when he fell from an inadequate ladder while carrying one end of a 100- to 120-pound beam that he intended to install as a doorway header. The amount included $105,000.00 awarded to his wife Roberta for loss of consortium. James Conwell was an employee of Kole Construction, a carpentry sub-contractor to James McHugh Construction Company, working at a job site at 1111 S. State Street in Chicago, when the ladder collapsed. He fell, and the beam struck him on the back of his head and neck. The serious injuries he suffered at the scene have now been declared by his doctor and the fe...
A 36-year-old Manitowoc died Saturday after he was pinned between a construction vehicle and a dumpster, the Manitowoc Corner's Office reports. The man, whose identity is expected to be released Monday evening, was pronounced dead of blunt force chest injuries at Aurora Medical Center in Two Rivers.
Two companies agreed to pay fines totaling $4,875 following a March 16 fatal construction accident at the Kanawha Mall. Richard Patrick, 60, of Charleston, was working on the ground when a steel bar joist fell and struck him, causing severe head injuries, Lt. Kim West of the Charleston Police Department said following the accident.
In a precedent setting case, a Connecticut jury found an international construction company 100 percent liable for the actions of a subcontractor whose actions left an employee paralyzed more than a decade ago. It took eleven years for Norman Pelletier, 54, to get his case to trial, but only one day for jurors to award a $32 million against Sordoni-Skanska Construction, an international construction firm that is now part of Skanska USA Building Inc. of New Jersey.
A Butler County man has died in a construction accident in Washington County. Wasington County Coroner Tim Warco said that Carl Beck of Linwood Drive died this morning at Canonsburg Hospital after falling about 42 feet from the roof of a construction site.
After breaking his back in 43 spots in a construction accident in November 2007, Ron Crues searched for a way to live without relying on narcotic pain killers every day. The solution he found was medical marijuana. They had me on 80 milligrams of oxycontin," Crues said. "I went from that, to doing marijuana at night, and I don't have to take that stuff anymore. It's nasty stuff. I hate it.
MOAB -- A man was killed in a construction accident when a structural beam landed on his head. Grand County sheriff's deputies said the accident happened Wednesday night as Ulrich (Rick) Winkler, 57, was working at a home he was building. Deputies said Winkler was preparing to put a structural beam in a wall pocket, when he lost his footing and fell.
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