Source: https://www.enr.com/
By: Annemarie Mannion

An ironworker who fell 100 ft from a scaffold at an $815-million cancer center under construction at the University of Chicago Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against Turner Construction Co. and scaffold provider Adjustable Forms. Inc.

Jeffrey A. Spyrka, 36, a union ironworker and member of Local 1, who was injured in the accident, filed the lawsuit June 10 in federal court in Chicago. A lawsuit by the family of David O’ Donnell, a Local 130 technical engineer, who was killed in the accident, is expected to be filed by June 14, according to GWC Injury Lawyers of Chicago, the personal injury firm that is representing both men. Louis C. Cairo, of GWC, will represent Spyrka, according to the filing.