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by David T. Marks
Last Updated on April 17, 2025
August 3, 2009

Facts & Allegations On Oct. 31, 2007, plaintiff  Joshua Goodson, 30, was using a 73-ton inflatable  air jack while repairing and fabricating boiler tubes  in the superheater section of a boiler room at a  Stryker Creek power plant owned by Luminant  Generation Company LLC. The air jack exploded  and injured him. 

Goodson and his crew were employees of a boiler maintenance contractor. The work required Goodson  to use an air jack to separate tube assemblies within  the boilers so that he could crawl between them. 

The manufacturer of the air jack was Molded  Products Co. It was designed and sold by Air Jack  Hydraulic. 

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David T. Marks<br><span style="font-size: 18px;">Chairman & Co-Founder</span>

David T. Marks
Chairman & Co-Founder

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