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August 1, 2012
Forest City Ratner to settles with worker injured during Ridge Hill Construction
Lohud.com
by Erik Shilling
Here at NoLandGrab, we're sticklers for focusing on the positive. So we like to think that Forest City Ratner's failure to deliver on its pie-in-the-sky promise of 17,000 construction jobs may well be keeping workers from getting hurt — or worse.
A prominent tri-state developer agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a state Supreme Court lawsuit with a former worker at the Westchester’s Ridge Hill development in Yonkers.
Ryan Vrabel was injured in 2009 when his hand got caught in an unguarded belt drive at the site, according to Steven Gaines, his lawyer. The accident led to the partial amputation of the thumb on his non-dominant hand.
He subsequently filed suit against the developer, Forest City Ratner, and several other companies in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn in 2010, alleging negligence. Two years later, the parties told a judge last month they had reached a settlement in the case.
Posted by eric at August 1, 2012 6:41 PM