CAMDEN — A Camden resident has filed a claim against the Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation, the four towns that incorporate it, and two employees there for the cost of injuries suffered at the facility on Nov. 26, 2014.

According to the claim that was filed July 12 in Cumberland County Superior Court, Charles Sturdee Jr., of Camden, was off-loading brush when he was allegedly struck by a length of tree/wood while it was being moved by transfer station employees.

Sturdee’s attorney, Christian Lewis, of the Lewiston firm Hardy Wolf and Downing, wrote in the suit that the subsequent injuries to Sturdee’s knee and back caused great pain and mental anguish, “requiring hospitalization and medical treatment,” for which the Corporation, towns and two employees are financially liable. The injuries, the suit said, caused loss of enjoyment of life, loss of earnings and loss of earning capacity.

The employees named in the suit are James Guerra, the manager, and Gary Leighton.

Sturdee maintains that Guerra was supervising the operation of the John Deer J442 Base Loader. Leighton was driving the equipment, the suit said. He alleges that Guerra was “unmindful of his duty” and careless in his supervision in such a manner that it collided with Sturdee.

Guerra was negligent in not warning Leighton in time before striking Sturdee, according to the suit.

Mid-Coast Solid Waste Corporation is represented by Camden Attorney Paul Gibbons, who has 20 days to respond to the suit.

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