Wyatt Inc. has settled a personal injury lawsuit brought by a man who suffered traumatic injuries after one of a subcontractor’s employees allegedly dropped hundreds of pounds of drywall on him.
According to the Legal Intelligencer (subscription required), Leo McLaverty was working with floor tiling on the 51st floor of the Comcast Center in Philadelphia, PA in February 2008 when an employee of Wyatt allegedly failed to chock the wheels of a drywall cart carrying between 500-700 pounds of drywall. The cart rolled six inches over the edge of protective floor covering and fell on top of McLaverty.
The personal injury lawsuit states that the cart should not have been placed so close to the floor covering, the wheels of the cart should have been properly chocked, and the cart should have had locking swivel casters that would have kept it from tipping over. The complaint also states that Johnson should have been directed to make sure the cart wasn’t left in the area McLaverty was working under, and that he should have inspected the area around the cart to make sure there were not any tile setters working near it.
A medical expert examined McLaverty and diagnosed him with “traumatic brain injury, headaches, chronic pain, cognitive deficits, memory loss, distractibility, cervical radiculopathy, peripheral neuropathies, brachial plexopathy, posttraumatic cephalgia, post-traumatic dizziness, nausea, anxiety and depression," as well as a "rotator cuff shoulder injury, neck injury and nerve injuries at the brachial plexus and also carpal tunnels."
If you or a loved one has experienced a personal injury, contact Sokolove Law to find out if a personal injury lawyer may be able to help you and represent your case.