Workplace Injury
Tkachev v. Ledcor
$2.4 million settlement
Construction laborer Vasily Tkachev, a Ukrainian immigrant, was applying wire mesh outside a building. Guardrails had not yet arrived for the scaffold Vasily was using. As he worked, Vasily's foot got tangled in the mesh stacked on the scaffold and he fell to the ground. Injuries included a broken leg, which eventually became infected and had to be amputated. Through careful investigation and a detailed presentation of the facts of the case, Kevin was able to obtain this outstanding result.
Katzer v. Mortenson Construction
$900,000 settlement
Ironworker Craig Katzer was installing roof decking 25 feet above the gym floor during a construction project at Issaquah High School. When Craig slipped and fell, his safety line pulled taut for a moment, then gave way. Craig hit his head on the concrete gym floor and was in a coma for six days. Following a remarkable recovery, he has returned to ironwork. The $900,000 settlement claimed that Mortenson Construction created an unsafe workplace - including its failure to adequately train and inform workers of the potential dangers at the work site.
