FELA – Ruptured Cervical
Disc – Myofascial Syndrome
Awarded Amount – $1,044,995
Saunders, 32, was injured when without warning a co-worker negligently lowered a 400 lb. load of steel roundstock while Saunders was assisting him, causing Saunders to sustain a ruptured cervical disc and severe muscle tearing in the upper back. He sought conservative medical treatment with a neurosurgeon approximately two months later, and eventually underwent a discectomy at the C5-6 level in 1993. Saunders returned to work later that year, but was eventually medically disqualified in December 1995.
