Posted On: December 16, 2005
$800,000 for Workplace Accident
A contractor paid $800,000 on Nov. 18 in settlement of an Ocean County uit by a worker injured in a two-story fall. Christopher Mansfield was bending back a reinforcement bar on the second floor of a school under construction in Englishtown on Dec. 13, 2000 when the bar snapped. The reaction propelled him backward to the ground.
The plaintiff argued that general contractor GP Parlamas of New Brunswick was liable because it didn't have a guard rail on the open floor or give Mansfield a harness. Mansfield suffered an ankle fracture that required three surgeries and, though he returned to work, he limps and will need less lurative, sedentary work within a few years.
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