KBR Selections Employed Killed On The Job
Sylvia Walters, 50 years old of Taylorsville, Kentucky was found under a sheet of granite by a customer at her place of employment and pronounced dead. It initially appears that Ms. Walters was moving the granite sheet with a hydraulic lift. The Louisville Metro Police Department and Kentucky Office of Safety and Health Compliance are investigating.
We express our sympathies and condolences to the friends and family of Ms. Walters. Let's hope that a thorough investigation takes place to get to the bottom of the cause of her death.
This tragedy illustrates the number of legal issues that have to be sorted through. For example, while Ms. Walters' family will have a claim for workers' compensation death benefits, they may also have a legal claim against other responsible individuals or entities outside of the employer-employee relationship. Answers to questions such as whether some piece of the equipment and machinery being used was defective and whether there were any breaches of safety rules and regulations that led to the accident need to be explored and answered.
