Georgia Home Depot Customer Injured By Forklift Awarded $1.5 Million

A Georgia jury has awarded a Home Depot customer and his wife $1.5 million in a lawsuit stemming from a forklift accident at a store.

The complaint by 58-year-old Larry Reece says a pallet of plywood fell on him from a forklift at a Home Depot in Marietta in 2005, knocking him down and causing neck and spine injuries.

Jeff Shiver, an attorney representing Reece, says his client accepted Home Depot’s offer for punitive damages, but the case went to a jury over personal injury damages. He says Reece was unable to resume his work in residential construction after the accident.

Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes says the chain has tried to do the right thing by accepting responsibility and by making fair offers to compensate Reece for his injuries.

Latest Comments

• July 21, 2009 at 12:45 pm

  Forklift Rentals says:

  Well at least Home Depot is stepping up and paying this poor man some money hopefully he will be able to get back to normal everyday activities.
• July 2, 2009 at 4:25 am

  Karen says:

  excellent comment Scott....in today's society no one is responsible for their own actions....we have become a society of who can we blame for our misfortunes!
• July 2, 2009 at 12:30 pm

  Dread says:

  Agree. What kind of pinhead goes anywhere near a forklift loaded with plywood in the first place? Something stinks on this one.