A Philadelphia jury has awarded a ­sanitation worker more than $1.8 million after he was partially blinded when caustic chemicals splashed into his eye while cleaning a Hatfield Quality Meats ­processing plant.

After nearly two weeks of trial, the verdict in Keith v. Hatfield Quality Meats was handed up March 17. The jury found Hatfield 87 percent liable for plaintiff Joseph Keith Jr.’s injuries, which means Keith can recover nearly $1.6 million.

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