A carpenter permanently disabled in a construction-site fall accepted $3.4 million on June 30 in his Passaic County suit, Rokoszak v. Avon Contractors Inc.

On June 25, 2009, Robert Rokoszak, then 52, was in a scissor-lift bucket on the roof of a Stop & Shop store in Clifton, applying siding to a higher section of the building. The lift swayed, shifted off two pieces of plywood that supported it and tipped over, throwing Rokoszak 25 feet to the ground, says his lawyer, Joseph Trapanese of Trapanese & Trapanese in Little Falls.

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