{"id":72480,"date":"2016-07-08T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=72480"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T22:27:40","slug":"lawsuit-filed-in-construction-worker-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/07\/08\/lawsuit-filed-in-construction-worker-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit filed in construction worker suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES – A woman whose car was struck by a Palmdale man who committed suicide by jumping from a downtown highrise under construction has filed a lawsuit against the company building the project where the decedent was working.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donna Crockett<\/b> and her husband, <\/span>Jamie Crockett<\/b>, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Turner Construction Co. The suit’s allegations include negligence, strict liability for an ultrahazardous activity and loss of consortium.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suit seeks unspecified damages. A representative for Turner Construction could not be immediately reached.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph Sabbatino<\/b>, 36, of Palmdale died at the scene of the fall, which occurred at about 12:35 p.m. March 17 in the 600 block of South Figueroa Street.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sabbatino, an electrician, fell about 50 stories and landed on a vehicle. The building project’s general contractor said the man had no reason to be above the structure’s third floor.<\/span><\/p>\n

The complaint alleges Turner Construction should have been aware of Sabbatino’s unfitness for the job and that the company was negligent in hiring him.<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit states that after Sabbatino’s body hit Donna Crockett’s car, she got out and saw “brain and other internal bodily matter splattered across her vehicle and the surrounding scene.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The woman had never before seen a dead body, the suit states, and the experience left her “shocked, overwhelmed, panicked, distressed and completely distraught.”<\/span><\/p>\n

She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and remained there for 10 hours receiving treatment, including help from a crisis management team, the suit states. She continues to get therapy, according to her complaint.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has been unable to return to her job at the Macy’s store near where the incident occurred because of her emotional distress, the suit states.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jamie Crockett has suffered from a loss of the affections he once had with his wife as well as the income she no longer is able to bring home, the suit states.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 73-story Wilshire Grand is being developed by Korean Air, which is owned by Hanjin International Corp., at a cost of more than $1 billion. The high-rise will be 1,100 feet tall when completed in 2017, surpassing the height of the U.S. Bank Tower, the tallest building in Los Angeles at 1,018 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previous related story<\/span>: Construction worker killed in fall ID\u2019d as Palmdale resident<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES – A woman whose car was struck by a Palmdale man who committed suicide by jumping from a downtown highrise under construction has filed a lawsuit against the company building the project where the decedent was working. Donna Crockett and her husband, Jamie Crockett, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}