Wallenberg, then a Brooklyn resident who worked for Paper magazine, reportedly said she heard her skin sizzle and saw an "o" and an "n" from the hot cover impressed upon her body. Wallenberg has been told the scarring is permanent, Berman said.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, accused Con Ed of "negligence, carelessness, recklessness and culpable conduct" related to Wallenberg's injuries...
Court papers said Wallenberg, now a factory worker who lives in Portland, Ore., is entitled to compensatory and punitive damages because of Con Ed's "reprehensible and egregious failure and refusal ... to protect the public from this manifestly clear and present danger."
So she lands on her ass, and get's an impromptu tatoo. She shouldn't have been skateboarding so close to the construction area to begin with. It must have been obvious that the workers were there, and she MUST have seen that the manhole cover was removed. Why the fuck didn't she just move over a bit and get some space between them for safety's sake?
I have a cousin who does this type of work. He once told me that protecting the public's safety while they're working is one of, if not THE first thing that they're trained on. It's drilled (figuratively speaking of course) into their heads repeatedly that it's THEY'RE responsibility to make sure that the general public knows that work is being done and that they need to keep their distance. Now if these guys in NY didn't do that, then she might have a case. If they can prove that they were following protocol and had taken the appropriate steps for the public's safety, it's not likely she'll win, since that's the crux of her case.
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