Man’s $670k payout as fire pit explodes

Tre Lawson, then 17, was at his friend’s birthday party in the central NSW town of Gunnedah in November 2016 when he was involved in the incident.

However, his injuries were too severe to be treated at the regional hospital and the teenager was flown to the Royal North Shore Hospital burns unit, where he stayed for a month.While at Royal North Shore, Mr Lawson underwent a number of skin grafting procedures and other burn treatments.The court heard Mr Lawson, now 21, has been left with significantly disfiguring scars from those burns and from the related procedures that were used to treat the burns.

He instead took up a barbering TAFE course however is unable to do a number of tasks required of him. Mr Lawson also suffers from “embarrassment and self-consciousness due to the scarring” and his scars are painful. Mr Lawson is also unable to play contact sport, which he previously loved, has trouble sleeping because of nightmares and has a phobia of fires.

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