Lawsuits for deceased worker, injured worker asking for millions of dollars in damages from general contractor, sub contractor
The family of David O'Donnell plans to file a lawsuit Thursday after the worker was killed in a Hyde Park, Chicago construction site scaffolding fall.The family of a man who fell to his death at a construction site earlier this month filed a lawsuit Thursday.The legal battle continues this week from the tragic construction accident that killed one man and seriously hurt another on June 6.
It was a 4x4 sheet of plywood, and by no circumstances should that have been holding the west scaffold and the south scaffolding together.O'Donnell, who was just 26 years old, died from his injuries while Jeff Spyrka is still in the hospital with serious injuries to his brain and body.. Their lawsuit alleged workers complained about the stability of that corner days earlier, when the scaffold was lower to the ground.
GWC law filed the second lawsuit from this incident on Thursday, which is a wrongful death suit on behalf of the O'Donnell family. Meanwhile, ABC7 learned more about what happened on that windy day with attorneys arguing that the scaffold was never built correctly.
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