Galfand Berger Personal Injury Attorney’s Recent $2.5 Million Recovery for Hand Injury Case Case Summary: Our client worked as a temporary employee at Cougle’s recycling plant located in Berks County.  He was responsible for loading paper into the front end of a paper shredder.  While our client was attempting to clear a paper jam at ...

Philadelphia products liability attorneys and personal injury lawyers at Galfand Berger practice products liability and personal injury law in Philadelphia, Allentown, Harrisburg, and Reading, Pa.

Philadelphia injury lawyers and products liability attorneys of Galfand Berger handle Philadelphia personal injury claims and product liability cases.

Client Awarded $1.35 Million after Press Machine Injury Richard M. Jurewicz, a senior partner at Galfand Berger, recently secured a $1.35 million settlement for our client, who lost his left ring, middle and index fingers after they were pulled into a press machine at his workplace. Case Summary Our client was a temporary employee at ...

$850,000 Settlement for Construction Worker in Industrial Walking Stilt Accident Engleman v. Southland Supply Company Case Summary: Our client was a 30 year old construction worker who, at the time of the accident, was using industrial walking stilts to apply a drywall ceiling when a bolt fell out of one of the stilts causing the ...

$731,817 Jury Award for Hand Injury in Printing Press Accident   Smith v. Dauphin Graphic Machines Case Summary: Our client, a mechanic in his late fifties employed by a printing company, had his hand crushed between the rollers of a printing press.  On the day of the accident our client had been greasing an offset ...

$731,000 Recovery Verdict in Dauphin County Case Summary: Our client, a long-time employee, had just finished greasing an offset printing press.  As he stood up from his work, he slipped and his left, non-dominant hand was pulled into an in-running nip-point which lacked guards. A co-worker testified there had never been a nip guard on ...

$650,000 Verdict For Amputation of Three Fingers Yealy v. Ariens Co. Case Summary: Yealy, 39, was riding on his Ariens Model 912-004 lawn mower. The mower rolled backwards down a hill until it struck the edge of a driveway. It flipped over on its rear wheels and landed blade-first on Yealy’s dominant hand, amputating his ...

$625,000 Recovery For Hand Injured In Inadequately Guarded Machinery Case Summary: The plaintiff was a factor worker who sustained a right hand injury while working on an industrial machine manufactured by the defendant manufacturer and sold by the defendant seller. The plaintiff alleged that the machine was dangerous and defective in that it lacked an ...

$625,000 Settlement for Factory Worker in Rotating Machine Part Accident   Doe v. Roe Manufacturing Case Summary: Our client was a twenty-four year old assistant machine operator who suffered a degloving hand injury caused by a rotating machine part.  On the day of the accident our client was using the machinery when his hand got ...

$510,000 Settlement for Industrial Can Filler Accident Gonzales v. Defendants Case Summary: The plaintiff, a butcher, suffered multiple fractures of his right arm after the sleeve of his jacket became caught on the rotating power take off shaft of an industrial can filler. The industrial can filler designed by defendants was defective as designed because ...

Philadelphia products liability lawyers of Galfand Berger practice products liability and personal injury law in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania.

$500,000 Hand Injury Settlement for Laborer in Flash Drying Machine Accident Gery v. William W. Meyer & Sons, Inc., et al Case Summary: Our client, a 21-year-old laborer employed by Custom Processing Systems, a company that produces bulk powders, was working with the JOD/Flash Drying Machine on the date of the accident. The flash drying ...

$460,000 Settlement for Crushed Arm and Wrist in Bottle Filler Machine Accident Peregory v. Horix Mfg. & American Temporary Services Case Summary: Our client had been assigned to work for Nationwide Industries, a producer of windshield wiper fluid, as a temporary employee by American Temporary Services. The machine involved in the accident was manufactured by ...

$450,000 Settlement for Machine Operator in Rotary Die-Cutter Accident McGurin v. Ward, Inc. Case Summary: Our client was a 55-year old machine operator who was employed by a packaging company.  At the time of the accident, our client was operating the Ward Rotary Die Cutter, a machine that processes flat corrugated sheets at the plant.  ...

$425,000 Settlement for Food Production Worker in Conveyor Belt Accident Jones v. Kossuth Fabricators, Inc. and Unnamed Engineering Design Firm Case Summary: Our client was a 38-year-old production worker injured when working near a conveyor belt in a pierogie plant.  On the date of the accident, our client reached into the bypass conveyor belt, which ...

$420,000 Settlement for Machine Attendant in Flash Dry Oven Accident Philips v. MAC Engineering Case Summary: Our client was a 38-year-old machine attendant working for a manufacturer of lead-acid batteries. He worked on the pasting line, which processed lead battery plates by coating them with paste and heating them in a flash dry oven. On ...

$400,000 Settlement for Temporary Employee in Centralized Vacuum System Accident Foor v. Defendant Case Summary: Our client was assigned to work for a dog food plant by a temporary employment agency one week before the accident. He was assigned to be a laborer with the task of sweeping and vacuuming up corn and dog food ...

$400,000 Verdict for Machine Cleaner in Pie Crimping Machine Accident Dietrich v. Luty Machine Company Case Summary: Our client was working as a machine cleaner for Mrs. Smith’s Frozen Pies for 9 years preceding the accident.  The pie crimper machine, designed by defendant, had 18 pie plate shells that traveled by means of a chain ...

$375,000.00 for Fractures of Index and Long Fingers of Non-Dominant Left Hand Case Summary: Our client worked as a laborer at ArcelorMittal’s Steelton, Pennsylvania facility, which manufactures rails for the railroad industry. While working in the Research & Development Department, our client was using a HydMech horizontal band saw to cut a piece of rail ...

$350,000 Settlement for Production Operator in Conveyor Belt Accident Irvin v. Jacobs Engineering Group; Jacobs Constructing, Inc.; McKamish Chesapeake Inc.; and Atlas Industrial Contractors Case Summary: Our client was a 50-year-old production operator who was overseeing operation of a conveyor belt.  On the date of the accident, the conveyor’s discharge door opened and spilled production ...

$325,000 Settlement for Machine Operator in Automated Cell Line Accident Arentz v. Defendants Case Summary: The plaintiff, a 44 year old machine operator, suffered a fracture of his non-dominant ring finger that eventually required amputation after the finger was crushed by the hold down clamp on an automated cell line. Two years prior to the ...

$325,000 Settlement for Wood Worker’s Hand Injury in Wood Shaping Machine Accident D’Luzen v. Defendants Case Summary: Our client was a wood worker who was using a wood shaping machine, designed by the defendants, to cut a curved piece of molding on the date of the accident.  In order to cut the curved molding, our ...

$298,000 Settlement for Laborer in Cold Core Box Accident Slywka v. CMI Equipment & Engineering Co. Case Summary: Our client was a 48-year old laborer employed by a temporary service and assigned to work as a core room helper at a foundry.   On the date of the accident, our client was teamed with a full-time ...

$275,000 Recovery for Partial Finger Amputation Case Summary: Our client worked as a lead operator on a printing machine. As he attempted to shut down the machine to remove a paper jam, our client’s hand became caught in an unguarded nip point on the machine. He suffered agonizing partial amputations of two fingers. Peter Patton, ...

$270,000 Settlement for Amputated Fingers in Blending System Accident Tucker v. Defendants Case Summary: Our client was employed by a plastics company that manufactures PVC piping, where he operated a mixing hopper. While in the process of operating the equipment, our client noticed that the hopper became jammed.  He attempted to troubleshoot the source of ...

$250,000 Settlement for Machine Operator in Web Applicator Machine Accident Crawford v. Tamarack Products, Inc. Case Summary: Our client was a 44-year-old machine operator who was in charge of operating a web applicator machine.  On the date of the accident, our client reached under the machine’s guard and placed a razor blade against the rotating ...

$250,000 Settlement for Process Technician in Vitamin Drier Accident Weinhofer v. Defendants Case Summary: Our client was a 38-year-old process technician who was employed by a pharmaceutical company that produces vitamins.  On the date of the accident, our client was required to monitor an industrial drier as it was being washed.  The process of washing ...

$240,000 settlement for factory worker’s laceration and fracture injuries to index finger   Case Summary: Our client suffered laceration and fracture injuries to her non-dominant index finger caused by a defective food packaging machine at her workplace. She filed a lawsuit against the machine manufacturer and seller alleging negligence and design defect due to the ...

Products liability attorneys and personal injury lawyers in Philadelphia at Galfand Berger handle Philadelphia injury and defective products claims.