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Ricky Bottensek, 44, was working as a landscaper for his brother\u2019s company, which turned out to be a third-party defendant in this case, Bottensek Inc.<\/a> The job site was in Rochelle, Ill.<\/a> On Feb. 28, 2008, the defendant, Fischer Excavating<\/a>, was digging a trench for the installation of a stilt fence. The Fischer employee and defendant, Rod Hagemann, was operating a rented trenching machine, cutting a trench in the frozen ground.<\/p>\n

Bottensek was working behind the machine, holding a fence stake steady while his co-worker waited to strike the stake with a sledgehammer to drive it into the trenched ground, when Hagemann lost control of the trenching machine causing the trencher and attached cutting chain to shift backwards. The cutting chain entangled one of Bottensek\u2019s legs and pulled them partially through the rotating chain causing severe injuries to both of his legs.<\/p>\n

He sustained an open fracture of the right femur, closed fractures of the left distal tibia and fibula with dislocation and a large complex degloving wound to his left lower leg, requiring multiple surgeries and probable future ankle fusion surgery.<\/p>\n

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Ricky Bottensek, 44, was working as a landscaper for his brother\u2019s company, which turned out to be a third-party defendant in this case, Bottensek Inc. The job site was in Rochelle, Ill. On Feb. 28, 2008, the defendant, Fischer Excavating, was digging a trench for the installation of a stilt fence. 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