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Man injured in tractor accident awarded $56.3 million (access required)

By: Justin Rebello
Staff writer
Published: February 5, 2010

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A Texas jury has ordered Caterpillar Inc. to pay $56.3 million to a worker who was paralyzed while using one the company’s earth-moving tractors. In August 2006, Alfonso Lopez, now 41, was using one of Caterpillar’s Wheel Tractor 623 G Scrapers while building a subdivision in the town of Little Elm, just north of Dallas. According to ...
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