Posted On: June 24, 2006
$850,000 for Workplace Accident
A construction worker who lost three fingers in a pole-driving-machine accident will receive $850,000 from the manufacturer in a settlement of his Atlantic County suit. Joseph Kell Jr was installing a highway guardrail in Philadelphia on January 7 and had his right hand crushed by a 1,200 pound hammer and block assembly that came dislodged from the machine's cable. His ring and middle fingers and part of his index finger had to be amputated.
The plaintiff claimed the machine, made by Sterling Manufacturing of Wilkes-Barre, PA, was defectively designed because it lacked a safety latch to prevent the hammer and block from coming loose.
* This information appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal
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