Workers Comp Help
Crushed By A Falling Wall
Where is my family justice?
Have you ever thought that allowing your spouse to go to work could rob you and your family financially, emotionally, physically ? Could change both of your lives for the worst and no one be held responsible? Watch all your dreams go down the drain and the persons/company responsible go free?? What happens to the injured employee family? Are you aware that if you are seriously injured at work, you can not sue your employer? The State of Florida laws prohibits an employee from suing his/her employer, but happens when the employee is severely hurt and will never be the same or be able to work again?
There are no programs or assistance to help the injured employee and family, while working through the financial hardship. Why should taxpayers be held responsible for employer negligence? Divosta did not release any information about the accident, you would think a remarkable company of such would take responsibility of its negligence, think again. It has been a long struggling 14 months without any assistance from Divosta. Here is our story from the beginning to the present.
January 1, 2003 Toasting in the New Year was nice, as we all sat together in our soon to be own home, Bennie, me and our 3 boys. I found out 2 weeks earlier that I was pregnant with my 4th child, my husband 7th. He was thrilled and I was dealing with morning sickness again. I had been working as a HR Specialist for Philips PACE in PGA for 3.5 years and I had a part-time courier position with Sun Sentinel. My husband worked as a forum finisher for Divosta, and helped me with my part-time courier position. We were working hard to accomplish the "American Dream".
1/10/03 8:20 am I received a call from my mother, she asked if I was sitting down? I advised yes, then she told me that Bennie, my husband, was involved in a accident at work and he had to be trauma hawked to the hospital. As I sat at my desk not knowing exactly where he was or how bad he was hurt, I walked over to my supervisor and advised her that I needed to leave because my husband had an accident a work. As I sped to St. Mary’s Hospital a thousand memories went through my mind. I called his mom to advise her of his accident and she met me at the hospital. After arriving at the hospital I was told that he was taken to Delray Medical Center which was 35 miles away from home.
We drove to the hospital and upon arrival I was advised that I could not see him because he was having various tests performed. After waiting almost 3 hours I finally got a chance to see him. He was in a lot of pain and he told me he was crushed by a 10 ton steel framed wall. His right thigh muscle ripped out of the opposite side of his thigh, his left hip was dislocated, pelvic bone cracked, left ankle fractured and he had a big gash above his right eye. He was losing a lot of blood.
The doctor explained to me that he needed a rod in his right femur, and they would close as much of his thigh/ leg as they could this was a 5 to 6 hour procedure. Dr. Steve Meadows put the rod in, but half way through I was advised that his blood stop flowing to his right foot and it was swelling fast. Dr. Gonzales explained that he would make 2 incisions on his right leg and put in a artificial artery to see if he could get the blood flowing to his foot. Thank God the surgery was a success. After surgery he was in intensive care for a week. He was then moved upstairs to a step down from ICU. Bennie was in Delray for a month and a half.
I went on FMLA and stayed with him. Bennie went through a lot of mental, physical, and emotional despair. After his leg being open for over a month he went through skin graphs, they removed skin from his left thigh to cover the open incisions on his right thigh and leg. Dr. Dordano performed the plastic surgery which was a great success. There was a small area that did not take, but he was now ready for rehab a St. Mary's. After a month of rehab he was finally allowed to go home. That was 15 months ago, we are struggling financially and emotionally. I hope that the laws can improve so that no family have to go through what we’ve been through!