Yes. Recently in 2017, a golf course.
SafetyEvidence was subpoenaed to produce all communication between one of our customers and ourselves. The customer, in this case, was a prominent golf club and the action against it was civil, not statutory. The injury occurred when the wind blew over a tree on the golf course striking a player. The player was badly injured and became paralyzed. The claim was for over $2.8 million.
The case was set to run for 10 days in the Supreme Court, however, on the seventh day, SafetyEvidence’s OSHA audit trail was called into evidence. Because this customer had been with SafetyEvidence for over 7 years, we were able to prove this customer was addressing their safety & health responsibilities to the Court.
SafetyEvidence really does four things very well; creating, gathering, storing and producing evidence.
Although SafetyEvidence was not called to attend the trial the manager of the golf club was, and here is their response in their own words.
“Things weren’t looking too good for the club until our lawyer (defense) started reading out some of the HUGE amounts of signed paperwork which SafetyEvidence had stored and sent into the court. Within a short time, an adjournment was called by the prosecution team and an out-of-court settlement was quickly reached…………there was no way we were going to win this case until this happened.”
Although the settlement was for an undisclosed amount, it is important to note that the club was pleased for two reasons; they were not found not guilty, so there was no prosecution, and the settlement was considerably less than what was sought after by the plaintiff. SafetyEvidence has been designed to be a simple, user-friendly app system, however, in court, for which it was also designed, it proves to be an extremely powerful tool in producing required evidence to stop a prosecution.