The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports in its December 22, 2007 edition that a jury has awarded a 13-year-old boy $2.85 million stemming from an escalator accident when he was 4-years-old.

The local jury also found that Otis Elevator Co., the maker of the escalator in question, should pay the boy's parent $250,000 each, the paper reports.

The lawyer for the boy had argued that the company was responsible because the settings on the specific escalator violated the company's own safety standards.

The child's hand was mangled after he fell on an escalator and his had was nearly amputated by the moving structure, the Telegram & Gazette reported.  The accident occurred while the boy was visiting his grandmother in China.