Yaffe sues Pentagon over 2008 scrapyard fatality
Dec 15, 2009 | 08:42 AM
| Paul Schaffer
Yaffe Cos. Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the Defense Department, asserting the agency is liable for the death of a temporary employee who was using a torch to remove brass loops from steel projectiles.
The temporary worker, Stephen Fontenot, died from injuries sustained when a supposedly inert ammunition shell exploded at a Yaffe branch scrapyard in Arkoma, Okla., in November 2008 (AMM, Nov. 20, 2008).
The Yaffe lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, said $5 million should be the tentative Defense Department liability to the scrap processor, anticipating the possibility of the family winning its state court suit against the company.....
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