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\u00a0A Lake County, Ill., jury returned a verdict of $257,800 for Joseph Briski, a truck driver who tripped and fell in a pothole after parking his trailer-truck at National Gypsum<\/a>\u2019s plant in Waukegan, Ill.\u00a0 <\/span>This incident occurred on Feb. 2, 2008.\u00a0 <\/span>Briski was walking toward the rear of his truck to undo the air lines when he fell.\u00a0 <\/span>He landed on both knees.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Briski contended that the parking lot in which truck drivers park their tractors and trailers was filled with numerous potholes and depressions hidden by snow and slush.<\/p>\n

Briski, 49, suffered an acute rupture of the left quadriceps tendon and fractured his kneecap.\u00a0<\/span>The quadriceps repair surgery two months after the incident failed. It resulted in permanent chronic quadriceps rupture<\/a>, which is a very disabling condition; permanent significant impairment of leg extensions; inability to continue working as a truck driver and potential future left knee arthritis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0A Lake County, Ill., jury returned a verdict of $257,800 for Joseph Briski, a truck driver who tripped and fell in a pothole after parking his trailer-truck at National Gypsum\u2019s plant in Waukegan, Ill.\u00a0 This incident occurred on Feb. 2, 2008.\u00a0 Briski was walking toward the rear of his truck to undo the air lines […]<\/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":[111,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-semi-trailer-truck-accidents","category-truck-accidents","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"\nTruck Driver Tore Tendon Tripping on Parking Lot Pothole; 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