Lafata v. Village of Lisle

Plaintiff, Dominick Lafata, brought this action against multiple defendants in the circuit court of Du Page County, seeking to recover damages for injuries he sustained on October 21, 1985, when he was struck by an earth-moving machine known as an endloader while working at a construction site. At the time of the accident, the endloader was transporting a section of concrete pipe, suspended from a cable attached to- the bucket of the endloader, from a stockpile of pipe sections located on the construction site to a place near where the pipe section was to be installed in a sewer drainage…