Trainor Faces $50,000 Personal Injury Suit; Plaintiff Requests Stay in Bankruptcy Suit

A flooring/carpet installer who worked on a job in which Trainor Glass was involved in February 2007 and filed a personal injury suit against the company, along with general contractor Turner Construction Co. and fellow subcontractor Strategic Flooring Services Inc. claiming he was injured on the job, has motioned for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois to lift its automatic stay to the extent of liability insurance coverage in the case. Sean O'Dowd, who filed the suit against Trainor in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Ill., claims Trainor, Turner and Strategic all were negligent at a jobsite at which he was working when he "tripped and fell to the ground due to a track molding on the floor, believed to be made of metal, approximately 2 1/2 inches high and 2 inches wide."

"Plaintiff had no notice of the existence of the track molding as it had been very recently installed, and Trainor Glass Co., an Illinois corporation, did not notify plaintiff nor his supervisor about the installation of the device," wrote O'Dowd in his complaint.
He further alleges that the area where the accident occurred "was poorly lit, with no artificial or temporary lighting which would have illuminated the area or the track molding itself."

Dowd claims the companies' actions caused him "to suffer diverse temporary and permanent disabling injuries to his person as a result of which he became and was sick, sore and lame and disordered, and has suffered, and will continue to suffer, great pain and agony in body and mind … "

He is seeking "a sum in excess of $50,000" from the company, which