$132,500 Settlement for Burn Injuries at Work

$132,500 for a 32-year-old man who was stripping and applying polyurethane to hard wood floors in a Queens apartment building. The superintendent failed to turn off the pilot light for the kitchen stove before the work began on the floor. As a result, the highly flammable materials ignited, burning the young man’s clothes and leaving him with first- and second-degree burns on his arms and face.