ST. LOUIS - A new lawsuit blames a machine manufacturer for the death of a worker.
Cindy Luttrell, individually and on behalf of Michael Luttrell, deceased, filed a lawsuit on August 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri against Doosan Machine Tools America Corporation and Techmachinery, LLC d/b/a TechMach a.k.a Technical Machine for negligence.
According to the complaint, on April 1, 2020, Mr. Luttrell spent at least a portion of the day working on a software program for amachine to manufacture a part so that, once completed, the part could be manufactured simply by selecting the correct program.
The following day, Mr. Luttrell was testing each line of the program for the part and was operating the machine at all times in a reasonably prudent manner and within the specifications provided for by Doosan, the suit says.
On the third step, which called for a boring operation in the machine while a 40-plus pound aluminum disk was spinning at a high rate of speed, the boring bar contacted the aluminum disk and the part was ejected from the machine, the suit says. The part collided with Mr. Luttrell with great force causing severe blunt force trauma to Luttrell, which later caused him to die, the suit says.
Cindy Luttrell seeks no less than $75,000.00, for pre- and post-judgment interest, attorney's fees and cost of suit. Luttrell is represented by Jill R. Rembusch.
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri case number 4:21-cv-00960-PLC