Category : Amputation Injuries

CPSC Recall: Stroller Amputation Risk

Sadly, this is not the first time California product liability lawyers have seen a stroller amputation risk. Recently, the Consumer Product Safety Commission had announced another recall because of stroller-linked amputations. This recall involves approximately 30,000 jogging strollers manufactured by Phil and Ted’s USA.

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SawStop Could Prevent Thousands of Power Saw Injuries Every Year

According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, every year more than 3,000 people are injured in table saw accidents. These accidents leave people with amputated fingers and limbs. Yet, for years now manufacturers have been aware of a safety device that if installed on a power saw, can prevent the possibility of amputations. The trouble however, has been in getting companies to include these features as part of their saws.

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Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Reaches Settlement with Family in Amusement Park Amputation Accident

Kaitlyn Lassiter, then a 13-year-old, was riding the Superman Tower of Power at the amusement park in July 2007.  The ride lifts people up more than 170 feet, and then drops them at a speed of 50 mph.  On the day that Kaitlyn was riding the Tower of Power with her friends, something went horribly wrong with the functioning of the ride.  A cable snapped, and wound itself around the girl's legs.  It took a while before the ride operator realized what was happening and shut the ride down.  By then, the damage had been done.   Both of Kaitlyn's feet were severed.  Surgeons later re-attached one foot, although she has been warned by doctors to expect surgery every few years on the attached foot.  She wears a prosthetic foot on her other leg.

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Woman and City of San Francisco Settle Muni Train Accident Suit

A San Francisco woman, whose leg had to be amputated after she was injured in a Muni train accident, has settled with the City of San Francisco for a sum of $2 million.

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Cell Phone Use in Car Costs Company $5.2 Million

The case against driving with a cell phone glued to your ear just got stronger. For Georgia-based International Paper Company, the lesson has been an expensive one. The company has paid a sum of $5.2 million to settle a personal injury lawsuit that resulted from one of their employees using a company provided cell phone.

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14-Year-Old Girl Gives Written Deposition in Six Flags Incident

Not all the exhilarated screams coming from the people enjoying the Superman Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom were those of joy or excitement. Germantown, Kentucky teenager Kaitlyn Lassiter has now testified that she screamed for the ride operators to stop the ride in vain. Nobody heard the teenager as one of the cables fell on her and her friends, coiling around Kaitlyn’s neck and almost decapitating her. By the time the malfunctioning ride was finally stopped and the girl rescued, both her feet were severed. She’s all of 14 years old.

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Leg Amputation Surgery to a Good Samaritan

 

Leg Amputation Surgery was performed to the 24-year-old Sara Gash. She was perfectly placed to help some one in need. The mother of two had just completed a course as a medical office assistant and had an inherent desire to help those she saw were in trouble. So when on the dark and rainy evening of October 14 she saw a pickup truck skid across the highway and overturn, she knew exactly what she had to do. There wasn’t any question about it. She stopped her car and jumped over the concrete barrier to get to the pickup truck. She talked to the driver trapped inside, and began calling for help on her cell phone. She didn’t even notice the east-bound car until it hit her. The impact threw Gash to the ground, her left leg broken and her right one crushed.

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