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A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a film set in New Mexico has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet reported.
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“I can finally start my healing journey,” he said in a telephone interview on Tuesday, the paper reported.
The 55-year-old was a cameraman on the set Only the bravea 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 pounds (1,361 kg) when fully loaded, down a steep road on Pajarito Mountain in the Pajarito Ski Area near Los Alamos when the unit overturned and fell on top of him, the newspaper said.
Razo suffered crash injuries that severely damaged several areas of his body. Since then, he has had more than 1,000 medical appointments and nearly a dozen surgeries, according to the report.
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In the suit, Razo says the producers were negligent in denying him time to first locate the terrain or install tank pads on the vehicle.
The jury took four hours to decide that Razo should receive $24.6 million in damages and his wife $6 million. Additionally, production companies Black Label Media and No Exit Film are liable for $27 million and $9 million in damages, respectively.
Attorneys for the California-based production companies did not respond to the newspaper’s messages seeking comment.
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