Workplace Safety
Worker injured in tire explosion awarded $441K
On Dec. 8, a tire technician was awarded $441,496 when he was injured by a tire explosion. Abrhim Enshikar was working at an Advance Tire & Wheels in Houston. He and a co-worker were instructed to inflate a large used lift truck tire. As Enshikar was holding the tire with his right hand during inflation, the tire exploded. The force of the explosion caused Enshikar to strike his head and briefly lose consciousness. The judge ruled that Advance Tire & Wheels was negligent. The thumb of Enshikar’s dominant right hand was dislocated and partially severed in the explosion and he developed vascular occlusion as well as compartment syndrome. He sustained a comminuted fracture of the intra-articular distal radius in his right arm.
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