Workplace Injuries - Product Liability

• $4.5 million - $4.5 million settlement against manufacturer of long wall miner for design defect. (1994)

• $1.44 million - $1.44 million settlement against manufacturer of mine car couplers. Client was a miner, riding to the surface in a mine car when couplers on a supply car failed, causing the supply car to roll back down into the mine where it hit the mine car carrying our client to the surface. Dye was seated in the right front of the mine car. His injuries included broken collar bone, broken ribs, ruptured spleen that had to be removed, back injury, head injury, anxiety, insomnia and depression. (2002)

• $1.44 million - $1.44 million wrongful death settlement against manufacturer of mine car couplers. Presley was a mine worker riding to the surface in a mine car when couplers on a supply car failed, causing the supply car to roll back down into the mine. Presley was seated in the left front of the mine car when it was struck by the runaway supply car. (2002)

• $1 million - $1 million settlement against construction contractor. Our client was at a work site talking with a co-worker when a backhoe grading the road backed into our client, crushing him against the back of a dump truck. The back-up alarm on the backhoe was not working. Filed in Mercer County, West Virginia (2000)

• $700,000 - $700,000 verdict against manufacturer of bungee cords for design defect and failure to warn. Truck driver had attached one end of bungee cord to secure tarp over his load. When he was hooking other end of cord to opposite side of truck, the metal hook on the attached end of the bungee cord bent and came free, whipped toward the driver and hit him in the eye, causing eye injury that blinded the driver in that eye.