Millwright injured during 2005 re-tooling of Belvidere’s Chrysler Assembly Plant reaches $3.4 million settlement
Posted By Brandon Reid On June 14, 2012 @ 11:06 am In Happening Now, Local News | No Comments
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Apprentice millwright James Susan, who lost his left hand in 2005 when he attempted to take a measurement alongside an active conveyor chain at Belvidere’s Chrysler Assembly Plant, has reached a $3.4 million settlement with defendant contractor, ASI, Inc.
Susan’s attorneys, Colin O’Malley and Joseph Sorce of Chicago’s Goldberg Weisman Cairo, announced the settlement June 12.
During four years of litigation, the defendants blamed Susan for failure to lockout/tagout the equipment. Through the investigation, attorneys O’Malley and Sorce established an ongoing work pattern of job assignments when millwrights were daily exposed to the danger of operating machinery because of scheduling and cost demands which the defendant contractor, ASI, Inc., attempted to meet.
Attorneys O’Malley and Sorce established that Susan and his co-workers were never given the option to lockout/tagout or perform other less dangerous tasks.
After the injury, Susan and his crewmembers were fired. As GWC has proved in many cases, workers are often exposed to unnecessary and avoidable dangers because of poor decisions by companies that put profit before safety. This result vindicates the workers who were unfairly blamed.
This is one of the largest settlements for construction injury in Winnebago County. GWC has obtained record verdicts and settlements throughout the state of Illinois. GWC is a Chicago-based firm of trial lawyers who represent injured people in many different kinds of cases. For further information, call Louis Cairo at (312) 464-1200.
Posted June 14, 2012
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