When working at any height above ground, you should be provided with a proper harness to ensure that you yourself do not fall. Assuming your harness is attached to an anchor somewhere on the construction site, you can use a tool tethering kit to link your hand tools to your wrists or to your clothing.
Driving while distracted is dangerous and can lead to accidents, injuries, and even death. We outline some of the most common distractions while operating a vehicle.
If you are injured due to a property owner’s negligence in maintaining their property, you may have the right to sue them under the doctrine of premises liability.
Even if a construction worker’s fall is not deadly, it can cause serious injuries that force the worker to lose time from work and incur financial hardship. Fortunately, New York State’s Scaffold Law protects construction workers by holding building site owners and employers fully liable for worker deaths and injuries resulting from unsafe conditions at elevated worksites.
When you’re a construction worker, you face dangers on the job that other professionals can avoid. One such danger is a stress fracture, which is a small crack or serious bruising of the bone.
While injured workers generally cannot file for workers’ comp and file a personal injury lawsuit, there are many instances where a worker can file both types of claims.
If you’re working in construction, heat can be a danger to your health, causing symptoms ranging from dizziness to collapse to seizures.
If you are capable after a car crash, there are steps you can take to protect your rights to compensation—and ensure that you can defend yourself if the other driver blames you for their injury.
If you suffer harm at a construction worksite, you could easily jeopardize your personal injury case. Learn some common mistakes to avoid.
Given the many new projects, cranes, scaffolds, and construction sites scattered across Manhattan and the Bronx, construction accident injuries are all too common in New York City.