Five years of legal wrangling following a workplace amputation – in which retaliation, intrigue and secret photos played a part – ended recently with a decision by a federal jury in Pennsylvania. The jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that Lloyd Industries Inc. and its owner, William P. Lloyd, unlawfully fired two employees because of their involvement in an OSHA investigation. A third was terminated right after having his hand crushed by a machine that lacked safety guards.
The saga began in July 2014, when an employee of Lloyd Industries, a leading manufacturer of fire dampers and HVAC products, suffered a serious injury that resulted in the amputation of three fingers. His employment was immediately terminated.