Verdicts & Settlements December 5, 2011: Bird Seed Injury Case Ends in Plaintiff Win

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A jury awarded $550,000 to a St. Louis man whose hands and arms were crushed by more than a ton of birdseed in a 2006 workplace accident.

Albert Smith, 54, was working as a machine operator at Spectrum Brands in Earth City when the straps snapped on a 2,500-pound seed bag being lifted overhead by an industrial scale. The bag broke, pinning Smith's hands and arms between the spilled seed and a sharp steel funnel, the man's attorneys said.

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Verdicts & Settlements December 5, 2011: Bird Seed Injury Case Ends in Plaintiff Win

He suffered broken bones, nerve and tendon damage and a severed artery and lost most of the use of his right hand and arm. Smith still can use his left hand, his dominant one.

In November 2007, Smi...

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