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Work Accident Claim
What Makes a Work Accident
Claimable?
 Did you know that one out of every 10 construction site workers
is injured on the job every year? Construction workers biggest risk from
personal injury is falling, while back injury accounts for 25 percent of all
work-related injuries, with next common are legs, arms, and hands.
Construction injuries account for over 10,000 accidents that
result in serious injuries that disable and remove from work a construction
worker. Once of the highest causes of death each year is due to a construction
related accident.
Construction accidents from heavy lifting loads with faulty
equipment and working without proper safety equipment. Workers using outdated
and in need of repair equipment and tools all result in serious injuries
sometimes even to death.
If You Work Construction You
Are At Risk
Construction sites have many injuries with hot liquid,
steam, chemicals, and electricity. Many accidents are due to improperly
maintained scaffolds, digging collapses, heavy equipment accidents, and general
malfunction of on the job equipment.
Construction Accident Injury
Claims
Construction accidents can be due to falls, harm by equipment
such as cranes, lifts or scaffold collapse. The high powered construction
equipment like nail guns, compressors, generators, pumps and turbines can cause
serious harm to construction workers who lose limbs and become paralyzed or can
even result in death. Use of trench digging equipment can cause harm from abuse
or misuse of equipment too in being run over or crushed.
Chemical construction accidents and construction accidents
related to burns, use of torches and welders is also dangerous adding to the
number of injuries due to burns, both chemical and heat related.
Your Risk To Toxin Exposure
Toxic Exposure:
Exposure to toxins
has greatly increased in the last ten years, where paint, asbestos,
construction solvents are linked to brain and tissue damage. You may not know
you are at risk until it is too late and a harmful toxic exposure has
occurred.
Toxin and Chemical Personal
Injury Claims
If you or someone you love is injured
due to construction work, please contact a construction injury solicitor or
construction injury lawyer that knows
how to deal with personal injury construction claims.
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