An electrician’s assistant seriously injured in an explosion while making repairs at a manufacturing facility agreed to a $3.69 million settlement in his Middlesex County suit, Shallo v. Park Electric, on July 24.

The suit claimed that Robert Shallo, now 51, was assisting with electrical repairs at a warehouse in South Plainfield on Feb. 20, 2014, when he was hit with an arc flash explosion. He suffered burns over 30 percent of his body, including his face and torso. Shallo has received numerous skin grafts and will require additional surgeries. His injuries were so severe that he was placed in a medically induced coma for two months after the accident, said his lawyer, David Mazie of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman in Roseland.