Brooklyn construction worker wins $3.4 million lawsuit after losing finger
A construction worker from Brooklyn was recently awarded $3.4 million in a lawsuit after a workplace accident nine years ago forced him to have the ring finger on his right hand amputated.
Leslie Smith, the then-61-year-old plaintiff, was mixing cement at a construction site for a three-story building located at 17 Lefferts Place on Jan. 21, 2010. Smith was waiting for coworkers who were positioned on a scaffold to signal to him to send up the next bucket of cement using a rope and pulley system when an unsecured plank came crashing down on his right hand.
According to Smith’s attorney, after the plank fell about 30 feet and crushed his hand underneath an iron bar, Smith ran, tripped and fell on his left shoulder and right knee.