Our personal injury attorneys continue to amass an impressive record of multimillion - dollar settlements and precedent - setting verdicts in cases ranging from
scaffolding falls to wrongful conviction and incarceration.
Its scaffold fell on and hurt a pedestrian.
If you were injured in a ladder fall, slip and fall or
scaffold fall, then workers» compensation benefits will provide the much - needed financial security you need while you recover.
Have you been injured in a Dallas
scaffolding fall accident?
When you need legal representation after
a scaffolding fall, head injury or wound resulting from an explosion, you don't just need an attorney, you need someone willing to hold those responsible to account.
However, for construction workers hurt or the families of those killed in a fatal construction accident due to an incident involving a ladder or
scaffold fall, there is often a devastating aftermath awaiting them following their injury or their loved one's death, including:
One of the most common construction accident injuries is
a scaffolding fall.
Accordingly, if you or a loved one has been injured in
a scaffold fall in New York's boroughs, including Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn or the Westchester jurisdictions like Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Mount Vernon, Yonkers, White Plains, New Rochelle, Hartsdale, Port Chester, Pelham, Bronxville, Harrison, Greenburgh, Elmsford or Valhalla, our experienced New York and Connecticut scaffold accident lawyers are available 24 - 7.
New York State Labor Law § 240, in particular, protects workers injured in
scaffold falls, including window washers, painters, power washers who fall as a result of a defective or broken scaffold.
At Silverman, Silverman & Seligman, P.C., our practice of construction accident claims often finds us representing clients who have suffered traumatic injuries in
a scaffold fall.
$ 75 Million Settlement obtained on behalf of the victims in a wrongful death and personal injury suit when
scaffolding fell from the John Hancock building in Chicago.
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Not exact matches
Jim and Marilyn Walpole were visiting Toronto on a weekend bus tour for seniors when Jim stumbled and
fell into
scaffolding, slitting his throat.
While corporations have largely failed to bulk up on their employee relations infrastructure, the broader economic
scaffolding that has supported workers in the past has continued to
fall away.
The broadside announcing this celebration made a point, however, of saying that, «all this to give thanks to the Lord who kept them from terrible and horrible
fall from the
scaffold in nearly a year of most painful labor at the height of almost ten meters.
As rain starting
falling today, a diverse group of supporters gathered under
scaffolding on Madison Street.
Alliance executive director Tom Stebbins said trial lawyers have profited handsomely while driving up the cost of doing business in New York by blocking needed reforms to provisions such as the «
scaffold law,» which holds contractors and property owners fully liable no matter what if workers are hurt in
falls from heights under unsafe conditions.
One day in 1907, the story goes, Einstein was working at his job at a patent office in Bern, Switzerland, when he imagined a person in free
fall, as if a workman
fell off a tall
scaffold.
A much tougher test of the
scaffold's abilities came this
fall, with much higher stakes.
During a raid by labor inspectors, Amidou
falls from
scaffolding and is gravely wounded.
Following a heart attack nearly had him
fall from a
scaffolding, Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is placed on sick leave by his cardiologist.
Several men
fall from
scaffolding on building.
Leopold follows him onto the
scaffolding of a bridge where the two
fall into a portal and end up in present day New York.
Guest lecturing in a packed Sanders Theatre this
fall, Fryer gave students in an economics class an intellectual tour of the dire nature of the problem, and of his efforts to build a
scaffold of evidence - based research to try to help fix it.
Nevertheless, you know that some students falter or fail when the
scaffold of parent or elementary teacher
falls away.
Specifically, we stand back from scholarship that
falls under the school improvement rubric and develop a conceptual
scaffold for thinking about this line of research and its relation to teaching and learning in schools.
It seems that Malise Gabriel, a scholar with an impressive list of enemies, stepped onto faulty
scaffolding for a cigarette and
fell to his death.
But in 1960 he quit sign painting altogether when two of his colleagues were killed after
falling off a
scaffold.
The first sculpture appears to be a random assemblage of a wooden
scaffold with what look like shipping containers hanging off it at precarious angles, one even has its «innards» of polystyrene poised to
fall on to the floor.
[7] By 1960, Rosenquist abandoned painting signs after a friend passed away by
falling from
scaffolding on the job.
Remove this
scaffolding and fertility and average family size decisions will
fall of their own accord.
Construction job sites are known for their dangers, and accidents such as
scaffolding accidents, injuries from
falling objects and electrocution is an all too common occurrence.
It can happen on construction sites, in factories, power plants, oil refineries, buildings, skyscrapers and large monuments, such as bridges, while working with faulty
scaffolding, unstable ladders, or
falling off of roofs.
Scaffolding and roof
falls can cause very serious injuries, including spinal cord injury, brain injury and paralysis.
Scaffolding Accidents Amputation Accidents
Falling or Swinging Objects Heavy Equipment Failure
-- $ 6 million settlement on behalf of the parents of 13 - year - old boy who drowned in an apartment complex swimming pool (2016); — $ 528,000 jury verdict in Philadelphia for a worker injured when he
fell through
scaffolding (2015); — $ 700,000 arbitration award for a school teacher who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in a car accident (2016); — $ 1 million policy limit settlement for a man injured in an automobile accident.
It is not uncommon for construction workers to suffer a
fall from a high ladder,
scaffolding or window at a construction site.
Serious and sometimes fatal trauma occurs when a worker is involved in a forklift or truck accident or
falls from a ladder or
scaffold.
Our experienced workplace compensation solicitors have claimed thousands of pounds in compensation for employees injured in
falls from
scaffolding and ladders.
Having a movable and stable
scaffolding as well as a safety stop mechanism connected to your harness should eliminate any free -
fall situations which may turn deadly if these safety measures weren't there in the first place.
When you've been injured in a
fall,
scaffolding accident, trench collapse, power line electrocution, crane accident, structure collapse, workplace motor vehicle accident or any other type of construction site accident, you have the right to seek compensation for you injuries.
Despite the measures taken to ensure the safety of those using
scaffolds,
scaffolding accidents still happen as a result of defective material,
falling objects and other mishaps that take place on a construction site.
For example, a worker may
fall from one
scaffolding level to another below, or they can
fall through a roof and onto the floor of the house being constructed.
From
scaffolding accidents / failures, to roofing accidents involving building collapses, to
falling objects or debris, any number of situations can cause extreme danger to the persons involved.
Last week another firm was fined following workers
falling from
scaffolding without having proper safety procedures.
Furthermore,
scaffolding can also go wrong when objects
fall from great heights or when construction material makes the walking platforms slippery and wet.
Scaffolding accidents mainly come from material failure, poor inspection, inadequate
fall protection and overloading the
scaffolds.
Claimant was injured after
falling from
scaffolding.
No safety barriers or
scaffolding had been put up around the edge of the roof to stop the employees being seriously injured in a
fall.
He has successfully resolved or tried cases in every major area of personal injury practice, including motor vehicle and truck accidents, labor law and
scaffolding injuries, premises
falls and lack of security cases.