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Texas Worker Awarded $7.7 Million for Electrical Injuries

A Texas worker, who was left with serious electrical burns in a workplace accident, has been awarded $7.7 million. The accident occurred in 2007. The worker, Marco Murillo was engaged in salvaging cables from electrical boxes. He sustained a serious electroshock, and suffered major burns on both his hands and forearms.

His injuries were so serious they required skin grafts, and muscles from his back and nerves from his ankle had to be transferred into his forearms. The employer Oncor Electric Delivery was found 60% liable in the accident, and the other defendants were found about 40% liable. Murillo has now been awarded $7.7 million in damages.

Electric accidents and injuries can occur in just about any workplace. The impact of these injuries can range from minor electrical burns, all the way to fatal electrocutions. Just about any worker in any kind of workplace – the construction sector, manufacturing, power or any other industry – runs the risk of suffering an electrical injury.

Many of these accidents are caused because workers are not trained to work with electrical tools and wiring. They may not use equipment correctly, or may fail to take proper safeguards to prevent accidents. Loose and exposed wiring, inadequate grounding, insufficient training, lack of precautions, failure to provide workers with safe and well functioning electrical tools – any of these, or combination of these, can cause a serious electrical accident.

A worker may not just suffer from electrical burns, but may also run the risk of suffering serious trauma injuries, when he is thrown off or falls down upon impact with a live wire.

Vuk Vujasinovic is a Houston work accident lawyer, representing injured victims of workplace and industrial accidents around Texas and nationwide.

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