$2M Settlement Reached After 21-Year-Old Construction Worker's Fatal Fall From Castle Forklift

A $2 million settlement has been reached in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a 21-year-old construction worker who fell to his death from a forklift in Morris County in 2016.

The Legacy Castle in Pequannock.
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Cecilia Levine

02/07/2020 10:58 a.m.

The forks fell off a forklift as it was lowering Michael Montero of Elizabeth, who was on-site of the Legacy Castle in Pequannock, the Occupational Safety Health Administration and his family said.

Montero, formerly of Belleville and Pompton Plains, fell 20 feet to his death and was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Clark Law Firm, representing Montero's family.

The Legacy Castle's subcontractor agreed to the settlement last year, as originally reported by The New Jersey Law Journal last November.

The castle's owner and developer ANA Realty, along with subcontractor GK Brothers, the Belleville company that employed Montero, each paid $1 million.

The Legacy Castle is where Jersey Shore cast members Mike and Lauren Sorrentino got married,

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