Civil Litigation
Jun. 19, 2019
Skylight falls at epidemic levels: Turning point for consumer safety
The problem has been so serious and so frequent that the U.S. Department of Labor began keeping statistics on skylight fall deaths decades ago.
Bruce A. Broillet
Senior and Founding Partner
Greene, Broillet & Wheeler LLP
Phone: (310) 576-1200
Email: BBroillet@gbw.law
Univ of Texas SOL; Austin TX
While preparing to land at an airport recently, I was looking out the window and felt a mixture of sadness and hope. We were flying over warehouse after warehouse -- large gray buildings with expansive flat roofs. My sadness was not because of the warehouse buildings, or the roofs, but because of the totally preventable danger each of those buildings had -- unprotected skylights. I had not known until I started handling these cases that people falling through unprotec...
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