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$3.5 Million
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SETTLEMENT: CONTRACTOR OVERWORKS EMPLOYEE WHO FALLS ASLEEP AT WHEEL A New Jersey construction company needed to get a job finished. A laborer works from 6:00 am to 3 pm. The same laborer returns for another shift that day. The construction company works him straight from 9 pm through the night to 7 am the next day. The exhausted laborer was driving home and fell asleep while driving on the Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus. He crossed over the center median and hit our client who was on his way to work traveling in the opposite direction. The crash spun our client’s car and his...
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View Original SourceFirst observed: August 27, 2026
Last checked: August 27, 2026
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Construction Accidents
Result Type
Settlement
Year
Year not reported
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NY
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