Gardner said that the gust reached 25 miles per hour that day, and neither company followed its own internal rules.
One of the dead, the family member of sarahhuang, a 19-year-old Chinese freshman studying at Seattle Pacific University, received a compensation of 72million yuan.
Of the $150million, about $72million was distributed to Huang’s family and about $52million to jastad’s family.
It is reported that after the workers prematurely removed the pin that fixed the 20 foot long part together, the strong wind knocked down the crane, resulting in a tragedy called “completely avoidable” by the state regulators.
Justad was driving down Mercer Street.
According to the lawyer, he was treated at Harbour View Medical Center for back, neck and hip pain, leg hematoma, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The jury’s ruling on Monday involved the case filed by Huang and jastad’s family, as well as the case of three other people injured or their vehicles hit by a crane or debris, including Huang’s friend Brittany kadlena, who was riding with her in an Uber car on the way to the shopping center, and Uber driver aliedriss.
The jury said that omegamorgan, northwesttowercraneservice and morroequipmentco These three companies have caused losses of 150million US dollars.
The Nanhu united construction site, which became the Google Park, was the largest construction project in the city at that time.
The collapse killed two iron workers working on cranes, 71 year old former city planning officer Alan jastad and 19-year-old Seattle Pacific University Student Sarah Wang.
“Like the others in her car and in the vicinity, she did not warn of the collapse of the tower crane,” her parents complained.
The county has not seen a fatal crane collapse in 13 years, although Seattle has more tower cranes than anywhere else in the country.
A drizzly video of the collapse on Saturday afternoon showed the crane leaning south and crashing into the almost complete Google building below.
Their families have filed separate lawsuits and will be tried in late May.
According to emails sent by SPU officials to students after the collapse, kadlena managed to escape unharmed.
The collapse accident on april27,2019 also killed 31 year old steelworker andrewyoder and 33 year old traviscorbet.
Gardner said the rest of the money would be allocated to the three people injured in the incident.
The complaint filed by jastad’s child said: “when the crane fell from the building to the road, the parts separated and bounced when hitting the road, and hit and landed on several cars, resulting in his injury and death.” Huang moved from California to study at Pacific University in Seattle.
In april2019, a crane in Nanhu united community, a construction building in Seattle, collapsed, resulting in four deaths and three injuries.
The lawyer said that she was still receiving treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and memory loss.
Wong and justad’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company involved in crane operation in the Google construction project on Mercer Street.
“She had no chance to avoid injury or death.”-.
The golden County jury paid more than $150million to the families of two of the victims and three of the injured.
Considering the type of crane they are using, the operation should be shut down when the wind speed reaches 11 mph.
When the crane fell, 28 year old Uber driver Edris was driving Huang and cadelena.
Sallybeaven, 62, was driving past a construction site when part of the crane hit the back of her car.
