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CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS
Construction sites produce the most severe injuries we see, and injured workers frequently have rights well beyond the workers compensation benefits their employer provides. Immigration status does not affect the ability to bring a claim, and neither does having already received compensation benefits. What does affect it is how quickly the site, the equipment, and the paperwork are secured, because a job site looks completely different two weeks later.
Cases we handle:
- Falls from scaffolds, ladders, roofs, and elevated work surfaces
- Falls through unguarded openings, shafts, and floor holes
- Scaffold, hoist, and platform collapses
- Falling objects, tools, materials, and debris striking workers below
- Crane, derrick, and rigging failures
- Trench and excavation collapses
- Injuries from unguarded machinery, saws, and power tools
- Electrocution, arc flash, and contact with energized lines
- Injuries caused by defective or missing fall protection equipment
- Struck-by and run-over injuries involving vehicles and heavy equipment
- Demolition and gut renovation injuries
- Fires, explosions, and burn injuries at work sites
- Injuries to passersby and building occupants from construction operations
- Injuries to non-union and day labor workers
- Catastrophic and fatal construction site injuries
We identify the owner, the general contractor, and every trade on site.
Because a claim against your own employer is generally limited to compensation benefits, the case is built against the property owner, the general contractor, the construction manager, and the other contractors working there. Sorting out who held which role takes the contracts, the permits, and the site records, and those same documents establish who controlled the work and who was responsible for the equipment that failed. We obtain the permit filings and the contract chain early, because the right defendant is often not the company whose name was on the sign.
We preserve the site and the equipment before the job moves on.
Sites change daily, and the ladder, scaffold, harness, or saw involved in an injury is frequently repaired, returned, or discarded within days. We send immediate preservation demands identifying the equipment and the location, and we pursue the daily reports, safety meeting records, sign-in sheets, inspection logs, incident reports, and any site photographs or drone footage. Inspection records and prior citations for the same contractor and site are requested at the outset.
We coordinate the compensation claim with the injury case.
Benefits need to be in place so treatment continues, but decisions made in the compensation claim can affect the injury case, including how the accident is described and what disability is claimed. We handle both so they do not work against each other, and we account for the compensation carrier’s reimbursement rights when evaluating what a settlement actually puts in your hands.
We prove the loss the way these injuries actually play out.
Construction injuries frequently end a trade career even when the worker can do something else, so we establish the specific physical demands of the trade, the loss of overtime and premium work, the realistic alternatives, and the future surgery and treatment to come. Where the injury involves the spine, a crush injury, an amputation, or a brain injury, we bring in a life care planner and an economist so those costs are presented in figures rather than in general terms.
Call before giving a statement to anyone from the site.
Contractors and their insurers investigate immediately and take statements the same week, and those statements get used later to shift blame onto the worker. You are entitled to speak with a lawyer first, and doing so does not affect your compensation benefits.
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