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A construction site is a busy and dangerous workplace.
For the 6.5 million Americans who work at more than 250,000 construction sites, maintaining the highest level of safety is always imperative. A work site may have dozens of subcontractors, each working on a different aspect of the project. Without strict safety rules, workers are at risk for sustaining debilitating back, neck and head injuries as well as burns, broken bones, electric shock, and worse.
Accidents can be prevented with good communication, organized site coordination, proper training, and mandatory safety enforcement. However, at a busy construction site, determining who is responsible for keeping workers safe is often difficult. While a site manager is responsible for planning workflows, making safety inspections and enforcing good safety practices, each contractor and subcontractor also has a duty to follow best practices for safety and prevent hazardous conditions whenever possible. When someone is injured on the job, who is responsible?
Liability for Construction Site Injuries
In many states like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, workers injured on the job can apply for workers’ compensation benefits. This no-fault form of insurance allows a worker to still receive compensation—even if he or she is at fault for the injury. The benefits will cover medical bills and some lost wages while that person is unable to work. But when a work injury is someone else’s fault, can the victim also hold the responsible party accountable in a lawsuit?
If a worker is injured or killed by a anyone who is not employed by the same employer, or by any type of dangerous equipment or machinery, they are entitled to be compensated for their injuries, or their family is entitled to substantial compensation for their death. Here are examples of where you can sue for injury or death:
- The site manager responsible for overall safety on the construction project,
- Another subcontractor,
- The property owner,
- The seller, distributor or manufacturer of a tool machine, or plant equipment (such as scaffolding, vats or or catwalks) that caused your injury.
For workers who were injured on a construction site, it may be unclear exactly what happened and whose actions led to the incident. We can help. If it happened to you, we urge you to contact our construction injury attorneys right away. During a free, no-obligation meeting, an experienced lawyer will listen to your story and let you know if you have grounds for a third-party liability claim. The sooner you contact us, the more evidence we will be able to gather before it disappears.
If you do have grounds for a claim, we welcome you to retain legal representation with our firm. Our construction injury attorneys will represent you on a contingency basis. That means you don’t pay us until we win your case. If we don’t win, you don’t pay.
