Unsafe Working Conditions Alleged in Lawsuit

03 Jan Unsafe Working Conditions Alleged in Lawsuit

A lawsuit has been filed by two teenage boys who were injured in their workplace. The lawsuit alleges that the Oklahoma teenagers, who were working on a grain auger, were injured by the machinery due to unsafe conditions in their workplace.

The defendant has been fined by OSHA due to not having workers compensation in place at the time of the accident, according to the Enid News and Eagle. The company is being sued for over $75,000 in damages. According to the reporting, the lawsuits in total alleged that there were five separate counts of negligence on the part of the employer.

Each of the boys lost a leg in the incident. One of the boys was working on the machinery when his leg got caught in it. The other boy attempted to help the boy who was stuck and ended up getting caught in the auger himself. In addition to losing a leg, both of them sustained critical injuries during the incident.

Training and Negligence

Among the allegations made in the lawsuit is that the boys were not provided with adequate training. There are strict OSHA requirements for training for working on certain types of machinery. There are also age restrictions for working on particular types of machinery in the workplace. If an employer violates age limits or if they fail to provide proper training, they may well be held to be negligent if one of their workers becomes injured.

Workers sometimes feel pressure to take on more than they can handle, simply to avoid losing their jobs. In the case of younger people, they sometimes lack the ability to rationally assess the level of risk they're taking by following an employer's directives, even if an adult would realize immediately that the employer was asking them to do something unreasonably dangerous.

Attorneys can help the victims of negligent employers and their families by filing work injury lawsuits, such as in the case above. Industrial and other workplace accidents can impact the wage earning ability of an individual for the rest of their life, can take away from their quality of life and can sometimes end up killing people. There is no reason that a family or a worker should let this go unaddressed. If you or someone in your family have been injured in the workplace and your employer's negligence was the cause of that injury, you should make the time to speak with a personal injury attorney about the matter.

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