CONSTRUCTION ROOFER INJURED - settlement $968,000
A client of ours - John
Doe - was employed as a roofer to perform insurance repair work
on residential homes. (The name of the client is not disclosed.)
A roofing material supplier delivered and
failed to properly secure roofing supplies onto a customer's roof.
The roofing materials were approximately thirty three (33) bags
of shingles, each of which weighed about eighty pounds.
The supplier's driver and loader attempted
to secure the 33 bags of shingles onto the top of a 10-12 pitch
roof. The loader did so by nailing two (2) 2"x6" boards onto the
roof sheeting but not into the studs-rafters. He then spaced out
the bags as they were stacked along the boards.
Unfortunately, he did not nail the 2"x6"
boards into the roof securely by driving the nails into the studs
or by driving in a sufficient number of nails, properly spaced apart
for the size and weight of the roofing material load to hold 33-80
pound bags of shingles.
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