Construction Accidents

Helping Victims become Survivors

Above are some signs all of us often see, whether on a road, in a building, or walking down the sidewalk past a construction site. Many of us dismiss them or take them for granted, forgetting how important they are. But if you work in construction, you appreciate their importance in preventing violent death and injury, and you know that without them, many more lives would be lost, including quite possibly your own.

Still, signs aren’t enough to prevent construction workers from facing a wider variety of dangers and being exposed to a greater risk of work-related injuries and fatalities than any other sector of the American workforce. Construction workers must often labor daily in the modern world’s most hazardous places, including on highways and roads, on bridges and roof tops, and in tall buildings, sewers and tunnels. Their “office” can change everyday, depending on the type of construction they do, and they must frequently adapt to a broad range of unfamiliar working environments and conditions. Working with heavy, dangerous equipment, and in weather conditions that can range from arctic to blazing, construction workers have to be tough people.

But that toughness doesn’t prevent an alarmingly high rate of traumatic injuries and on-the-job deaths among construction workers. Some of the most common forms of injury and death occur as a result of falls from roofs, crane and heavy equipment accidents, scaffolding collapses, structural cave-ins, electrocution, fires and explosions, compressed and natural gas explosions from underground pipes and cables, and welding accidents. The resulting injuries are often catastrophic, and can include third degree burns, paralysis from spinal cord injuries, de-gloving injuries, burn injuries, amputation and severe fractures.

The list of long term health threats construction workers face is just as expansive. Loss of hearing is common, as is exposure to highly lethal toxins and chemicals, including crystalline silica (which causes Silicosis), asbestos, talc, formaldehyde, xylene, Toluene, welding fumes and Lead.

The attorneys of MHLRT have handled hundreds of cases involving construction accidents, seeking justice for construction workers who’ve been needlessly exposed to dangerous circumstances, and paid a tragic price for trying to do their jobs. Throughout those cases, we’ve developed a tremendous respect for those who work in construction. Construction workers are the doers of America, the crafters and shapers of all that makes our country great. It is through their hard work and risky endeavors that the rest of us enjoy so many liberties and conveniences. We all work and dwell in buildings created by construction workers, and come and go from them on roads construction workers pave and maintain. Without the hard, continuous work of construction workers, daily life would not be what it is today.

Our appreciation and compassion for construction workers is what has made MHLRT construction accident attorneys the attorneys of choice for many who have been injured on the job through employer or manufacturer negligence, defective construction equipment, failure to abide by Occupational Safety and Health Authority codes, or willfully exposing construction workers to unnecessary risk.

If you or a loved one is facing difficulties collecting an adequate settlement as the result of a construction accident injury, you’re not alone. The construction accident attorneys of MHLRT work everyday with victims of construction accidents, helping them make the critical legal choices that will help them become financially secure survivors. Contact us today to discuss your potential case.