Most jobsites are accidents waiting to happen. This case is no exception.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is was actually a very unusual case of an amputation and a fatality that resulted from a faulty cabbage processing machine. Manfredo Ocampo went to work as usual one day and didn\u2019t come home until many days later as a result of losing his arm at work and needing medical care in the hospital,\u201d outlined Daren Monroe, who writes for Litigation Funding Corporation, Southfield, Michigan.<\/p>\n
Evidently what happened is that Ocampo\u2019s arm was torn off when the cabbage processing machine\u2019s centrifuge ruptured while it was in high gear \u2013 1,000 revolutions a minute. A second worker was killed due to the accident and two other employees were severely injured.<\/p>\n
When the case made its way to court, the jury determined that 85% of the liability for this horrific accident lay at the doorstep of the machine\u2019s owner. \u201cIt was clear during (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most jobsites are accidents waiting to happen. This case is no exception. \u201cThis is was actually a very unusual case of an amputation and a fatality that resulted from a faulty cabbage processing machine. Manfredo Ocampo went to work as…<\/span><\/p>\n