A man whose arms were crushed by a cardboard baler while working at Acme has reached a combined $7.9 million settlement with the manufacturer, service technician and replacement part provider of the equipment.

The trial in Hedlund v. Marathon Equipment was slated to begin in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas this June, but after mediation with JAMS’s Jerry Roscoe, the three defendants agreed last week to share in a settlement with plaintiff Christopher Hedlund.