ALLEGHENY - A Pittsburgh man named over a dozen defendants in a lawsuit after his hand was pulverized in a bandsaw at a railroad machinery manufacturing facility.
Plaintiff Russell Butler filed the complaint in April in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas against multiple defendants involved in the design, manufacturing, sale, renting, leasing or operation of the bandsaw and the facility, including Kasto Maschinenbau GMB and Co., Trinity Rail Inc., Standard Forged Products LLC and others.
Butler says he was working at the McKees Rocks Forgings Inc. manufacturing plant at 75 Nichol Ave. in McKees Rocks on July 18, 2019. Butler was cutting a railroad car axel with the bandsaw when the glove on his right hand caught on the saw blade and pulled his hand into the blade.
Butler's hand was crushed, including multiple fractures of the hand and fingers, tendon tears and soft tissue and muscle injuries.
The defendants are charged with negligence, strict liability and breach of applied and implied warranty/merchantability/warranty of fitness for a particular purpose.
Butler is represented by Ainsman Levine LLC of Pittsburgh.