A plaintiff recently settled his claim in a personal injury lawsuit settlement for $1,350,000. The plaintiff suffered a puncture-wound to his foot after stepping on a submerged metal spike that was in a sulfur pit. The plaintiff was a diabetic and doing maintenance on a sub pump in a submerged part of a sulfur pit when the accident occurred.
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According to an Illinois personal injury lawsuit recently filed, an employee of an elevator company claims that he was hurt by falling debris from the ceiling in an elevator shaft. The complaint filed in the Illinois personal injury lawsuit states that the defendant breached its duty to prevent unsafe work practices.
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Tuesday morning a ramp collapsed a at a casino construction site. As many as 12 construction workers suffered minor injuries when they plunged into Lake Michigan after the ramp collapsed. Between 10 and 12 of the workers were transported to local hospitals, mostly with minor cuts and bruising after the accident, which occurred at about 8 am. Read more here.
A mine collapse has killed nearly eighteen people and caused personal injuries to another ten miners who remain alive. The mine collapse accident comes in the wake of earthquakes that have hit the region. An investigation has been launched to see what caused the construction accident. There may be a potential premises liability claim against the company who owns the mine. As of yet no wrongful death suits or personal injury suits have been filed against the mine’s owner. To read the full story click here.
A gate accident that caused serious injuries and death to a young Chicago, Illinois boy has turned into a lawsuit. A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against the negligent management company who was responsible for the gate. Construction accidents and premises liability lawsuits occur when management and property owners are negligent and do not make sure their machines and their properties are in safe conditions. The Chicago, Illinois gate accident has resulted in the wrongful death suit on behalf of the boy who was only three when he perished. Chicago municipal code violations may also be investigated further in the case. To read the most current update on this story click here.
Building code violations in a Chicago, Illinois building may have caused the death of a three year old child who died after suffering premises liability injuries. Chicago code violations in the area surrounded the iron gate that killed the boy. Faulty repairs to the gate may have caused the gate premises accident. As questions remain on the liability for the boy’s death one thing remains clear that an innocent Chicago, Illinois boy died on Chicago Housing Authority grounds. The management company of the premises may be liable for the faulty housing area. To read more on this story click here.
A Chicago, Illinois premises liability suit may arise after a gate accident occurred. A tall steel gate fell and cause a minor death, a three year old boy. Building code violations should have previously warned Chicago, Illinois officials of the faulty building construction. The premises liability falls on Chicago, Illinois officials as the building was under control of the Chicago Housing Authority. The construction accident occurred when a rusted gate fell and killed the innocent three year old. There is no word yet if a personal injury lawsuit or a wrongful death lawsuit will be filed. To read about this recent premises liability accident click here.
Late last night a Chicago, Illinois expressway became the scene of a deadly car crash. The fatal car accident left the driver of a pickup truck dead after he was seen driving in what some would call negligent driving or reckless driving as the car was driving in the wrong direction. The pickup truck smashed into a construction truck vehicle after hitting a car. Besides the one truck driver killed the other vehicles on the road neither suffered serious property damage nor serious personal injuries. The area where the accident occurred is also in a construction zone but luckily no construction accident occurred with workers being off for the night. To see the full article and a news clip about the crash click here.
Construction at the new Cowboys stadium hit a bump on Thursday when three workers were injured in a construction accident. The workers were on a crane when cables and equipment fell from another crane, forcing them to jump off the one they were standing on. Three workers were injured, one critically so, from the fall. One was taken by helicopter to a hospital, the other two taken to the same hospital by ambulance. This accident occurred just one day after a worker was killed in a crane accident at another construction site. While all three men are known to have been conscious during transportation to the hospital, it is still unknown what the extent of their construction injuries were. The size of any site when the end product is a structure like a stadium makes construction accidents and injuries like the one involved here practically inevitable. Since the extent of any injuries is as of yet unknown, it is hard to determine whether any personal injury lawsuits, workers’ compensation claims, or even wrongful death lawsuits will be filed.
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Wednesday morning 2 Illinois Department of Transportation workers died while painting a bridge in Elgin. The workers’ truck came into contact with a power-line and by the time firefighters arrived on the scene the truck was encased in flames. Both men were so severely burned that they were pronounced dead on the scene. It is as of yet unknown what caused the truck to hit the power-line, but human error or product liability are some potential issues. Later that same day, one IDOT worked died and another was injured in a car accident on one of Chicago, Illinois’ highways. It is not clear yet whether any workers' compensation claims, personal injury lawsuits, or wrongful death lawsuits will be filed in connection with the two construction accidents.
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A fatal car accident left an Illinois Department of Transportation worker killed yesterday. A deadly interstate accident on a Chicago, Illinois interstate left the road worker dead and another individual with car accident injuries. The injured interstate worker suffered from a head injury and a brain injury but was released from the hospital. The reckless driver attempted to leave the scene but was later apprehended. This accident comes after Illinois legislation has been passed to minimize highway car accidents and construction accidents in highway work zones. As of yet the family of the deceased has not filed a wrongful death suit against the negligent reckless driver. To see the full story click here.
On Tuesday a contract worker hired for certain services at a Caterpillar Technical Center in Mossville, Illinois was involved in an accident and suffered severe personal injuries resulting in death. The as of yet unnamed worker, whose identity will not be released until his family is notified, was pronounced dead at a Peoria hospital, where he had been taken after the accident. No other information about the accident has been released, but Caterpillar manufactures construction equipment, so this may have been a construction injury. Pending further information about the accident, it has not yet become clear who is at fault or whether a personal injury lawsuit, construction accident lawsuit, and/or a wrongful death lawsuit will be filed.
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Chicago, Illinois was the center of a building construction accident, last week, where a crane fell on a building construction site. Emergency crews were called to the construction site after the 700 foot crane smashed into a building. Chicago, Illinois is only one of many cities to recently experience accidents on construction sites. Construction crews must work carefully and be cautious as in locations like the Chicago Loop both buildings and pedestrian accidents are abundant and likely to result in personal injuries. To see the full article click here
Chicago Representative Fritchey has sponsored a bill that is now being read on the Illinois House floor that would improve protections for construction workers in Illinois. The bill is a response to the increasing dangers of working in construction that often include catastrophic injuries, disability, and worker’s compensation suits. The bill would increase requirements for safety features on scaffolding, require posted worksite safety information and warnings, as well as other detailed requirements to improve working conditions for Illinois construction workers.
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Accidents at construction sites are dangerous and can often be fatal. The Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) is designed to inspect construction sites in order to ensure safety for employees and reduce construction site injuries. In the Midwest, Illinois is the worst state in the region regarding efficiency and number of OHSA inspections. Because there are so many more construction sites that OSHA can inspect, it would take an estimated 121 years for OSHA to inspect all of Illinois's jobsites. All employees should be aware of their employer's workers' compensation insurance and should learn their rights in the case of a construction injury or accident.
A $2.7 million settlement was reached in a Cook County Circuit Court regarding a construction accident in Aurora, Illinois. One man was killed in the construction accident, and another seriously injured. The accident occurred at the site of a land development project, where the two men were sent to measure a soil pile blocking a future cul-de-sac. The 25-foot high soil pile collapsed and buried the men while they were measuring it, killing one 51-year-old worker and crushing the back and pelvis of the other, a 27-year-old man. The plaintiffs alleged that the injury causing measuring job was not a part of the written contract between the excavation company the men worked for and the road development company. The contract in question was not signed until after the accident.
Five workers were recently killed at a hydroelectric plant when a fire erupted. The men died of smoke inhalation. The contractor, RPI Coating, had been fined 90 times since 1988, with fines totaling $135,569. The company had also been fined numerous times, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, for violating hazardous waste rules. The plant is owned by Xcel Energy, and some people have been questioning the company's decision to hire RPI despite the numerous fines and citations relating to safety. The men that died in the fire range from 18-years-old to 52-years-old. Numerous other workers were injured in the fire. No personal injury or wrongful death lawsuits have been filed as of yet.
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An Indiana man working on the City Center project in Carmel, Indiana has recently filed a personal injury lawsuit against the city and the general contractor for the project. The personal injury lawsuit alleges negligence which lead to the construction accident. While working on an underground portion of the project, the construction worker nearly lost his arm when a crane above him dropped a load of rebar. The man states that it looked like the rigging securing the rebar was worn out and defective. The rigging on that crane was changed the subsequent day.
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