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Herrenknecht & the contractors are taken to court after exploding TBM pipe left Fort Wayne tunneller severely injured

    Dave Anderson
    By Dave Anderson Replies (7)

    The wife of the injured tunnel worker Tyler Tompkins, a Salini Impregilo SPA Inc./The Lane Construction Corporation employee, files a lawsuit against the German tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht and a contractor. 

    The lawsuit filed in Allen Superior Court says Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA and Shambaugh & Son are liable for the accident when a pipe of the TBM exploded in Fort Wayne's Deep Rock Tunnel.

    The April 16, 2020 accident had severely injured Tyler Tompkins, an employee of the complaint states that as a result of the TBM Mamajo pipe explosion, "highly pressurized slurry, as well as possibly piping and/or piping fragments," hit Mr Tompkins leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated.

    The complaint says, the worker did not know that the equipment was defective.

    Full text of the filed complaint is included in this link:

    https://wpta21.com/2020/07/23/wife-of-worker-severely-injured-inside-deep-rock-tunnel-project-files-lawsuit/

     

     

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