Jahmir Bates was 8 years old in August 2005, when a routine tonsillectomy left him blind and unable to speak, eat, or walk. Allentown’s Sacred Heart Hospital agreed to the settle the lawsuit that resulted and to implement safety measures to prevent similar accidents.
A jury found for the family of Matthew Walker-Masters, who was almost two years old when an unsecured, 450-pound fence at a Home Depot in London, England, fell on him in 1998, causing serious brain injuries.
Gheorghe Teglas, now 34, fell 15 feet from a mezzanine at a construction site in Upper Macungie, Pennsylvania, in March 2001. A Romanian citizen, Teglas had been working at the site as part of an exchange visitor training program.
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