A Louisiana jury last week awarded $37.1 milllion to a 27-year-old worker who lost his leg four years ago in a workplace accident.
New sources report that Houston-based Total Petrochemicals and Refining was found negligent in Dec. 14, 2013 accident. Logan Milstead, a dockman who was responsible for testing chemicals as they were transferred between Total's plant and the barges and ships that moored the company's floating dock, was injured when a portion of the loading dock he was standing on collapsed, causing a 6,000 pound counterweight to crush his leg.