Van Doren v. Coe Press Equipment Corp.

MEMORANDUM

LEGROME D. DAVIS, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

From approximately 2004 to 2006, Plaintiff Walter Van Doren (“Van Doren”) was an employee of Columbia Lighting LCA, Inc., in Bristol, Pennsylvania (“Columbia Bristol”). His duties included operating machines used to make housings for lights. One of the machines he operated was a straightener machine, a machine used to straighten large coils of metal. The machine had two large metal rolls between which the metal would be pulled in order to be straightened. On May 2, 2006, Van Doren suffered an accident at work in which both of his arms…