{"id":3107,"date":"2014-02-18T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:52:34","slug":"17-million-settlement-reached-death-electrician-crushed-crane-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/17-million-settlement-reached-death-electrician-crushed-crane-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"$17 Million Settlement Reached in Death of Electrician Crushed by a Crane Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Adam Nowak was installing electrical equipment at an energy plant when a crane hook fell about 60 feet from an overhead crane, which struck and killed him.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Nowak was an electrician working for Matrix Service Co., and\u00a0he was installing electrical equipment at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoliaenergyna.com\/\">Veolia Energy<\/a>\u2019s Schuylkill Steam Plant.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The lawsuit for the wrongful death of Mr. Nowak was brought by his wife, Michele Nowak, and filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The defendants in the case included Veolia, which owned the crane, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permadur.com\/home.htm\">Permadur Industries<\/a>, which was contracted to do repairs and annual inspections of the crane.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Another defendant in the case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennyconstruction.com\/default.aspx\">Kenny Construction Co<\/a>., was the contractor of Mr. Nowak\u2019s employer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The lawsuit alleged that Veolia was negligent for choosing not to correctly maintain the crane\u2019s limit switch, which was designed to prevent \u201ctwo-blocking,\u201d a design feature that is used when a crane hook is raised too high.<span>\u00a0<\/span>In this case, when the crane hook was raised too high, the cable holding the hook snapped and the hook fell to the ground, killing Mr. Nowak.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/17-million-settlement-reached-death-electrician-crushed-crane-hook\/#more-3107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Nowak was installing electrical equipment at an energy plant when a crane hook fell about 60 feet from an overhead crane, which struck and killed him.\u00a0Mr. Nowak was an electrician working for Matrix Service Co., and\u00a0he was installing electrical equipment at the Veolia Energy\u2019s Schuylkill Steam Plant.\u00a0 The lawsuit for the wrongful death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,65,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-injuries","category-crane-accident","category-work-injuries","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$17 Million Settlement Reached in Death of Electrician Crushed by a Crane Hook &#8212; 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