Machinery Accidents
Find Out If You Have a Claim After a Machinery Injury
Construction workers often are exposed to dangerous and heavy machinery. Depending on a person's job and the size of a job site, this could happen on a daily basis, or even more frequently. It comes as no surprise then that machinery accidents occur too often on construction sites. These huge machines can cause catastrophic and even fatal injuries to workers. Injuries from machinery can affect the quality of a person's life, his or her health, or even the financial stability of a family. What you will find below is information on machinery accidents and a worker's rights concerning them.
What Are Common Machinery Accidents?
Accidents involving machinery come in many forms. Common machinery accidents include loader accidents, crane accidents, as well as accidents with skid steers, back loaders, bulldozers, etc. These machinery accidents do not even include the accidents caused by tools. Though they vary widely, the effects of a machinery accident can cause many of the same injuries that affect the limbs, face, head, and other parts of the body. Broken bones, cuts, scrapes, amputations, paralysis, traumatic brain injury, disfigurement, and other terrible injuries can occur on a construction job site due to machinery.
What Causes Machinery Accidents?
Though machinery accidents often happen accidentally, they can also be caused by the negligent actions of individuals who lack the training or common sense to use machinery and tools correctly. Sometimes this negligence results in an injury. There may be other factors involved as well, such as fatigue, drug use, or alcohol use that lead to a mistake resulting in a machinery related injury. These can impact a person's life forever and can impair a worker's ability to perform normal job functions. A moment's carelessness while operating heavy machinery can cause a lifelong disability.
We understand at The Husband & Wife Law Team, how devastating these impacts can be on our clients. That is part of the reason why we do everything in our power for our clients to ensure that those who are negligent in their cases of machinery accident injuries are held accountable. Our firm has the resources it takes to conduct wide-ranging investigations that are often needed when machinery accidents result in injuries, so that if we must go to court, we will have the applicable evidence to win in court. As experienced personal injury attorneys, we have a long list of successful verdicts and settlements that we have won on our clients' behalf.
Too often, those who are hurt on a job site only seek workers' compensation and in so doing fail to get the compensation they may be legally entitled to. There are cases when someone other than a person's employer may be at fault, and in cases like these, going after additional compensation in a machinery accident case may be justified.
Get Help From The Husband & Wife Law Team
If you have been injured or disabled in a construction accident involving heavy machinery and are looking into filing a machinery accident lawsuit, we invite you to call us. As experienced construction accident lawyers knowledgeable about machinery accidents, The Husband & Wife Law Team will give you a free and confidential case consultation. Contact us for more information.