Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1919280

Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat

  • @[email protected]English
    88•1 year ago

    had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8F

    This guy was almost 110 and they were trying to pour water on him to cool him.

    Your can have seizures at 105 and 108 is permanent brain damage territory.

    What they need to do is sue for $100M not $1M.

    A few headlines of companies suffering big financial losses can convince companies to do the right thing more than some law with a $10k fine. Companies will always do what is less cost/risk. You have to make the cost/risk of employee deaths more.

    • @[email protected]English
      33•1 year ago

      That’s what the push for tort reform in the 90s was all about: minimizing the cost of lawsuits brought by injured parties. It never passed on a national level AFAIK, but Texas has a lot of limitations on burden of proof and maximum damages that could affect this case.