A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a Recent Mexico movie set has been awarded greater than $66 million in a lawsuit, amongst the most important settlements within the state’s history, a news outlet reported.
“I can finally begin my healing journey,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday, the newspaper reported.
The 55-year-old was a cameraman on the set of “Only the Brave,” a movie about elite firefighters starring Josh Brolin and Jeff Bridges, in June 2016. He was driving a mobile camera crane unit, which weighs over 3,000 kilos (1,361 kilograms) when fully loaded, up a steep road on Pajarito Mountain within the Pajarito Ski Area near Los Alamos, when the unit tipped over and fell on him, the newspaper reported.
Razo suffered crush injuries that left several areas of his body severely damaged. Since then, he has had over 1,000 medical appointments and nearly a dozen surgeries, in line with the report.
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Within the suit, Razo says producers were negligent by denying him time to scout the terrain first or install tank treads on the vehicle.
It took a jury 4 hours to come to a decision that Razo should receive $24.6 million in damages and his wife $6 million. As well as, production firms Black Label Media and No Exit Film are answerable for $27 million and $9 million in punitive damages, respectively.
Attorneys for the California-based production firms didn’t reply to messages from the newspaper looking for comment.
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