{"id":6947,"date":"2018-12-14T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:12","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-case-of-injured-worker-who-sued-metropolitan-water-reclamation-district-of-greater-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-case-of-injured-worker-who-sued-metropolitan-water-reclamation-district-of-greater-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Case of Injured Worker Who Sued Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Andrews was working as a cement finisher for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhpaschen.com\">F.H. Paschen S.N. Nielsen and Associates, LLC<\/a> (\u201cPaschen\u201d) on a project for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (\u201cWater Reclamation District\u201d or \u201cdistrict\u201d), a governmental entity. He fell 29 feet from a ladder to the bottom of a water chamber where he was applying sealant.<\/p>\n<p>The worksite was muddy that day, and the chamber in which he fell had three feet of standing water in it. The other workers, along with Andrews, were required to use a ladder made by the construction crew for part of the descent before &#8220;pivoting&#8221; by stepping over onto a commercial fiberglass ladder for the remainder of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>There was no platform between the two ladders. Andrews slipped while attempting to transfer between the two ladders landing on a co-worker, breaking multiple bones and suffering &#8220;severe, career-ending head injuries.&#8221;<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-dismissal-of-case-of-injured-worker-who-sued-metropolitan-water-reclamation-district-of-greater-chicago\/#more-6947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Andrews was working as a cement finisher for F.H. Paschen S.N. Nielsen and Associates, LLC (\u201cPaschen\u201d) on a project for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (\u201cWater Reclamation District\u201d or \u201cdistrict\u201d), a governmental entity. He fell 29 feet from a ladder to the bottom of a water chamber where he was applying [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,80,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appellate-procedure","category-scaffold-fall-injuries","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Dismissal of Case of Injured Worker Who Sued Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jeffrey Andrews was working as a cement finisher for F.H. 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