A man injured while working as an electrician for SEPTA was awarded a $15,556,000 verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 16 after four and a half years of litigation with the public transport agency. 

The plaintiff, William Meszaros, sued the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act after an approximately 5,644-pound reel of copper trolley wire fell and pinned him to the wall of a storage trailer. Meszaros, a trainee with SEPTA at the time, had been moving the reel with four co-workers using a makeshift ramp, which was improperly placed and caused the reel to shift. 

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