Monongahela River
PITTSBURGH – A wrongful termination suit from a man who claims he was fired from a water and sewer authority when he refused to dump raw sewage into the Monongahela River is the burden of the West Elizabeth Sanitary Authority, according to Union Township.
Perry Payne first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Aug. 11 versus West Elizabeth Sanitary Authority and West Elizabeth Borough, Union Township of Finleyville and the Borough of Jefferson Hills.
“Plaintiff began working for WESA in June 2013. In September 2019, WESA was in the process of trying to get a new processing treatment plant online. Around this time, the old plant was still online and it developed a processing issue. Plaintiff did everything he could to address and correct this processing issue, but it continued until about mid-January 2020,” Payne said.
Black & Decker Router
PITTSBURGH – A woodworker from Northwestern Pennsylvania says defective electric tools that he used in the course of his job led him to suffer amputation of two fingers on his right hand.
Justin S. Wentz of Erie filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 30 versus Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc. (doing business as “Porter-Cable”) and The Black & Decker Corporation of Towson, Md., Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. of New Britain, Conn. and Porter-Cable Corporation of North Jackson, Tenn.
“On Aug. 16, 2018, plaintiff was operating the Porter Cable Model 75361 Production Router Base and Model 7519 Production Router [electric motorized power tools] in the course of his of employment at Schutte Woodworking, in a manner intended by defendants and for the foreseeable and intended purposes for which it was designed, manufactured, sold, supplied and serviced by the defendants,” the suit states.