MEC&F Expert Engineers : Railroad worker injured when chair broke wins more than $920K from lawsuit

Friday, July 31, 2015

Railroad worker injured when chair broke wins more than $920K from lawsuit

- Associated Press - 
Thursday, July 30, 2015 
 
GERING, Neb. (AP) - 

A male worker who was injured at a Union Pacific facility when a chair he was sitting on broke has been awarded more than $920,000 by a jury in western Nebraska.

Dan Anderson filed the lawsuit in March 2010, alleging that the railroad failed to provide him a safe place to work. 

The accident occurred on Oct. 2, 2007, when Anderson was 55 and working as a control operator at Union Pacific’s South Morrill facility in Scotts Bluff County. 

The verdict was rendered last week after a three-day trial