For $6.5 million, the maker of the body of a recycling truck has settled a trash collector’s claim that the placement of steps before the rear wheels of the vehicle caused him to fall and then be run over by the truck.
Keenan Chisolm, working as a trash collector for waste disposal company J.P. Mascaro, was run over while picking up recyclables on his route October 9, 2008, leaving him with internal organ damage, a spinal cord injury, the need to use colostomy and urine bags, evisceration of his scrotum, an amputation of his right leg, and phantom pain from his missing leg.
