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Operator injured on printing machine

Our client was employed as a printing machine operator in a printing plant in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He injured his arm while clearing a jam in a very large box printing machine. Our client claimed that the machine cycled when the jam was cleared, despite the fact that he pushed the stop button prior to clearing the jam. He suffered crush and de-gloving injuries to his non-dominant arm.  He could not return to work as a machine operator.

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he defendant in this case claimed that the machine could not cycle after the stop button was pushed, and that our client therefore must not have pushed the stop button before placing his arm into the moving parts of the machine. The defendant also claimed that our client would have had to have climbed onto the top of the machine in order to access the portion of the machine where the injury occurred. We were able to analyze the electrical engineering drawings for this Swiss-manufactured machine and prove that under certain conditions, with certain circuits open and closed, the machine could in fact cycle when a jam was cleared after the stop button was pushed.

We were able to settle this case for $950,000 prior to trial.

Awarded: $950,000 settlement