{"id":3248,"date":"2014-03-06T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2014-03-03T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:42:13","slug":"2-6-million-verdict-injured-metro-worker-blamed-unsafe-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/2-6-million-verdict-injured-metro-worker-blamed-unsafe-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"$2.6 Million Verdict for Injured Metro Worker Blamed on Unsafe Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Oct. 12, 2004, Clinton Haywood, 47, was working as a <a href=\"http:\/\/metrarail.com\/metra\/en\/home.html\">Metra<\/a> signal maintainer. He was unloading a 123-pound joint box from a rat bed sliding platform on the back of a truck when the rat bed unexpectedly slid into the truck. This caused the box to start to drop. Haywood bent and twisted his body to prevent the box from falling onto him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Haywood was first diagnosed by Metra physicians with just a back sprain for which he received conservative medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, three years later, in 2007, Haywood was testing a signal when he fell over a fence that had been knocked down and was partially covered with snow. This incident exasperated his original back strain injury.Haywood was diagnosed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/orthopedics.about.com\/cs\/herniateddisk\/a\/ruptureddisk.htm\">herniated L5-S1 disk <\/a>injury.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>This injury was aggravated by the second work injury resulting in a one-level lumbar fusion in 2012.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Haywood attempted to return to his job after the surgery, but was not able to work after May 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/2-6-million-verdict-injured-metro-worker-blamed-unsafe-equipment\/#more-3248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 12, 2004, Clinton Haywood, 47, was working as a Metra signal maintainer. He was unloading a 123-pound joint box from a rat bed sliding platform on the back of a truck when the rat bed unexpectedly slid into the truck. This caused the box to start to drop. 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