Family took civil lawsuit after death at the workplace

Lexington, Ky. (Wkyt) – Almost a year after his death, the family of the former judge of Powell County, James Anderson, is now fighting a legal dispute.

“It breaks my heart to believe that this could happen to another family. I saw how it destroyed us,” said Clayton Anderson's son.

Clayton Anderson lost his father almost a year ago.

“I remember the nights in which he would bring heaters to older people in the middle of the night in the neighborhood who might not or have fans. Whatever they needed.”

The family said Anderson worked for the Codell Construction to monitor the work that was carried out by increasing sun development at a new school in Jackson County.

The Kentucky police said Anderson said that an equipment trailer had fallen while unloading concrete tiles and later died in a hospital.

But the lawyers for his family said that the story had even more, and they said that this video and the public records they received prove this.

“The rising sun essentially uses a forklift to unload these 3,000 pound plates in an illegal, illegal method, which calls free rigging. This does not use the right equipment, they didn't have enough equipment, said Robert Roark from Roark & ​​Korus, PLLC.

Roark said Anderson was on the back of this truck. The crew of only a few men invited a plate, and before they could remove a second, the driver of the truck went forward.

We will stop the video at the top, but the second disk comes off and it, and Anderson is cut off from the truck. Anderson died shortly afterwards.

“We want the public to be informed about this free rigging. It is dangerous. You have to receive the message. Treasurer must receive the message. You cannot do this and endanger these people.”

Roark said Rising Sun submitted a lawsuit against the Anderson family and his estate to claim Anderson as an employee at the time of his death.

In response to this, Roark submitted this counterclaim in the name of the family to try to prove in court that Anderson's death was avoidable.

“So many things went wrong. That was completely avoidable,” said Roark.

WKYT turned to the rising sun development, but had no longer heard at the time of publication.

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