Wrongful Death Attorney in Austin, Texas
Can you tell us about a memorable wrongful death case you handled?
Can you tell us about a memorable wrongful death case you handled?
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we recently handled a wrongful death
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case involving a construction accident
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that was really quite tragic
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a truck driver who was delivering
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these large cement slabs to a
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construction site
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that was building a parking garage and
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so the way they build these parking
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garages are with these
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pre-fabricated cement slabs and they’re
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huge they’re you know 80 feet by 40 feet
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or larger and one or two slabs can be
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transported on a flat bed
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tractor-trailer truck our client was a
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truck driver and he was delivering these
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enormous
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concrete slabs to a construction site in
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austin
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where
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they were constructing a parking garage
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to go with an apartment complex he
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followed the flagman pulled his truck
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into the construction site he was
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waiting
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for
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the crane
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to come over and pick up
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the slab
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that was on the back of his truck so
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that he could move his truck out of the
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construction site and the next truck
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would come in
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well
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as he was standing there and undoing the
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straps that held the concrete slab
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in place
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on the back of the tractor trailer
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the concrete slab that they were
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erecting
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fell
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and it fell directly on top of him and
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his truck and it killed him the reason
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it fell is because
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the workers who were
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putting that slab up did not secure it
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properly
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and as we investigated this
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we learned that they were cutting
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corners
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left and right where they were supposed
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to use two braces they were using one
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where they were supposed to be
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inspecting
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that the brace was
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fastened correctly they weren’t doing it
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and it turned out they had had similar
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incidents happen in other parts of the
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country
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where parking garages that were being
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assembled in the same way collapsed
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sometimes killing people in this case
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osha the occupational safety and health
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administration conducted an
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investigation and issued citations
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austin police department homicide
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investigators investigated the situation
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that didn’t produce
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any criminal charges but quite frankly i
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think it could have
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we were hired by his widow and young
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daughter to
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take on the case
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and
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we did that we really dove into that
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industry and we learned about
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how the
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uh
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pre-fabricated
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segments of these garages are
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manufactured and when we deposed the
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corporate representative of the
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defendant
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we found out that even though he was a
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member of the board of the trade
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organization for this industry
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and that that trade organization had
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certain standards and rules
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that were to be followed by their
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members this company wasn’t following
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any of those rules and that’s what led
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to
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this catastrophic event that killed this
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loving husband and father
Austin, TX personal injury attorney Scott Hendler shares the story of a memorable wrongful death case he handled.
