CHICAGO – Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the families of three men who were killed in an explosion near Starved Rock State Park in May. The wrongful death lawsuit blames two construction companies and a blasting company that planned and carried out that job, saying they did not properly account for an explosive device.
Immer Rivera Tejada, 39, Rafael Rivera Tejada, 36, and Guillermo Rivera Tejada, 26, were killed on May 6 while on a fishing trip along the Illinois River. When they went to cook the fish along the banks of the Illinois River, the families’ attorney said they grabbed something to prop up the pan.
“To these three fathers, they used what appeared to them to be a copper pipe — just an innocent looking copper pipe on the shore — and they used it to prop up the handle of their pan to cook the fish…Within a matter of minutes with this pipe on the campfire a fatal explosion occurred and the three of them were tragically killed,” Patrick A. Salvi said during a press conference Thursday morning.
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