A worker severely injured by electrocution at a construction site was paid a $1.2 million settlement in his Essex County lawsuit, Zhindon v. Prestige Building Co., on April 24.

Plaintiff Jorge Zhindon was employed by Brazuka Construction and doing siding work at a residential worksite on Woodward Street in Jersey City on March 11, 2016. Zhindon and other workers were taking down a scaffold when a metal pole came in contact with overhead electrical wires. He suffered an electrical  shock and was thrown several feet, according to his lawyers, John Ratkowitz and Michael Gallardo of Ginarte Gallardo Gonzalez & Winograd in Newark.

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