Missouri Lawyers Media reports that a jury in St. Louis awarded $11 million to a man who shot himself in the eye with a pneumatic staple gun, though jurors also determined he was 30% at fault for the accident.
Andrew Wilkinson worked for a company that supplied equipment to the flooring industry and purchased a used staple gun. His attorney said the device sat unused in the man’s basement until he started his own flooring business about four years later.
As he started a job, Wilkinson moved the staple gun and hose, causing the tool to discharge and shoot him in...
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