A Brownville man who was injured severely when he tripped and fell into a rotating saw has been awarded more than $1.2 million in damages by a federal judge in Bangor.

David Badger, 45, was ordered this week to receive the settlement from Chase Machinery Inc. of Orange, Mass., the manufacturer of the saw that injured the worker.

Badger sued the Massachusetts company, as well as Basketville Inc., a Vermont corporation that owned the sawmill where he was working when he was injured in December 1984.

As a result of his accident, Badger cut his right arm and severed most of his right buttocks and part of his left buttocks.

U.S. Senior Judge Martin Loughlin, a visiting judge from the District of New Hampshire, filed the order for damages this week in U.S. District Court in Bangor.

In his decision, Loughlin concluded that “without question from an objective and subjective point of view, he (Badger) suffered both physically and mentally and will suffer in the future.”

Efforts to reach attorneys for the plaintiff and the corporation were unsuccessful.

Badger was the sole witness at a hearing on damages held last week in federal court. In June, a U.S. magistrate found that Chase Machinery defaulted on the lawsuit when representatives failed to show up for a final pre-trial conference.

Basketville Inc. also was dismissed last month as a defendant when the company reached an out-of-court settlement with Badger. The Vermont company agreed to pay the plaintiff $577,607, which it wants to recover from Chase Machinery.

At the time of his accident, Badger was employed as a sawyer and maintenance man by Milo Woodcrafters Inc., a Maine corporation operating in Milo and owned by Basketville Inc., according to the court order.

The plaintiff tripped and accidentally fell into the rotating saw. A helper, who was the only other person present, ran for help.

Badger did not lose consciousness after he was injured and during an ambulance ride to the hospital. He was hospitalized for 25 days and received orthopedic and plastic surgery, according to the document.

The plaintiff was injured permanently and suffered extreme pain as a result of the accident, concluded the judge.