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Date: 04-10-2009

Case Style: Allen Frohne v. Leclaire Hotel Group LLC d/b/a Holiday Inn Express and Gibbs Construction

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Court: District Court, Scott County, Iowa

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Description: Plaintiff's Construction Liability and Safety Expert Timothy G. Galarnyk of Construction Risk Management, Inc. concluded that Gibbs Construction Services and LeClaire Hotel Group flagrantly violated OSHA regulations by constructing a wooden box and placing this box on the forks of a Telehandler Lift. A similar collapse of a similarly constructed wooden box occurred involving Gibbs Construction less than a year prior to this injury accident. In the previous collapse, a worker had just exited the box on the third floor into a hotel window when the wooden box toppled to the ground.

In this case involving Frohne, Gibbs and the LeClaire Hotel Group instructed Frohne to use the wooden box and the Telehandler to access the gutter installation work. When Frohne was hoisted up to the third floor of the Hotel under construction, the wooden box suddenly fell off the forks and collapsed 30 feet to the ground with Frohne.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $7 million.

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Defendant's Experts: Defendant's Gibbs and LeClaire did not present a safety expert in this case.

Comments: Editor's Note: Verdict believed to be one of the largest single construction injury verdicts in Iowa State history



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