MARLINTON—An Ohio County resident is suing an Ohio-based construction business and its allied corporation on claims of premises negligence in a workplace accident which the plaintiff claims resulted in broken bones.
Christopher Plants of Valley Grove filed a lawsuit against Quality Steel Erecting Inc. of Bethesda, Ohio, and Jarvis, Downing & Emch Inc. of Wheeling in Ohio Circuit Court on Aug. 24, asserting breach of duty in August 2013.
The suit states that the plaintiff was a Pennsylvania union member working as a bricklayer at a site in Wheeling on Aug. 28, 2013. According to the complaint, the defendants failed to secure their equipment safely, resulting in a large C clamp located 10 to 15 feet above the plaintiff falling directly on him.
Plants maintains that the equipment struck his left wrist and caused fractured bones, among other injuries. The plaintiff contends pain and suffering, mental anguish and emotional upset, embarrassment, and diminished daily functionality and earning capacity, along with medical bills.
The plaintiff seeks compensatory damages in excess of the minimum jurisdictional amount for economic and non-economic losses, pre- and post-judgment interest, attorneys’ fees, and costs.
Plants is represented by Ronald Zavolta and Jordan Laird of the Zavolta Law Office in Wheeling. The case has been assigned to Judge James P. Mazzone.
Ohio Circuit Court case number 15-C-232-JPM