Month: August 2024

Survivors of the Delta Tire Explosion at Hartsfield-Jackson Have the Right to Sue

Two people are dead and a third under hospital care, following an accident at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on the morning of August 27th, 2024. The victims, Mirko Marweg, Luis Aldarondo, and a currently unidentified Delta employee, were working in a technical operations maintenance facility at the airport, removing a tire from the detached wheel section of a Delta Airlines plane. The tire exploded, killing Marweg and Aldarondo, and severely injuring the other employee. Delta...

Shaw Industries Employees Deserve Better Accident Protection and Compensation

Shaw Industries is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, in its own words, a global flooring provider. It has its headquarters here in Georgia, along with dozens of carpet plants all over the city of Dalton and the surrounding area. For the thousands of Georgia residents who work in Shaw Industries’ carpet plants, occupational injuries and illnesses are a very real daily threat, and getting adequate compensation can be a frustrating process, especially without expert help. Carpet Plan...

Finding Justice After a Pilgrim’s Poultry Plant Accident

Pilgrim’s Pride, Pilgrim’s Global, or simply “Pilgrim’s” is a poultry and pork packing company founded in Texas in the 1940s, and currently headquartered in Colorado. Though originally (and still officially) an American company, the majority of Pilgrim’s stock now belongs to the Brazilian company JBS — the single largest global meatpacking company in the world. For people working in the many Pilgrim’s processing plants across the American South, including here Georgia, the daily reality of...

How to Recover from an Accident at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation

Gulfstream Aerospace is an aircraft manufacturer headquartered here in Georgia, with facilities around the country. The company’s main local aircraft plant in Savannah covers 142,000 square feet of space and employs roughly 11,500 people, as of its latest expansion. Maintaining a safe workspace for that many people is a huge responsibility, and unfortunately, Gulfstream hasn’t always been up to the task. Gulfstream Aerospace Plants Have Struggled with Typical Factory Safety Issues Wh...