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Common Injuries Due to Construction Accidents

Thursday, August 6, 2009 by A. Raymond Hamrick

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You may drive by a busy construction job site and marvel at the activity. Giant, slow moving equipment, often covered in dirt and grime, construction workers clad in yellow hard hats and tool belts and lots of noise emanating from below ground. What you don’t often see or think about is how these construction workers face serious and often fatal risks when they report to the site each day.

Common Injuries Sustained at a Construction Site

Because of the heavy equipment, sharp moving tools and sometimes hazardous chemicals and liquids that prevail on a site, construction injuries can be extremely dangerous.

If you have suffered any one of these types of construction injuries you need a qualified Los Angeles construction accident attorney in your corner to represent you:

  • Brain or head injury
  • Skin irritation or burn
  • Loss of sight in one or both eyes
  • Breathing problems
  • Fractures or sprains
  • Loss of finger(s), hand or arm
  • Spinal injury

You risk your life going to work every day and if you are injured at a construction site you need a seasoned construction attorney to help figure out who is liable for your injury. Was the piece of equipment defective? Were the architect’s design not drawn to code? Were you not warned about a dangerous part of the site? Did the sub-contractor wiring the building make a mistake?

What you need to Collect

Help your construction accident attorney by reporting any injury to the job site manager immediately. Take photos of your injury or the site if possible and try to remember if there were any witnesses to your accident. This will all be very helpful to your attorney as he works toward finding out who is liable and what financial compensation under the law you are entitled to.

This article is a courtesy of the Los Angeles construction law firm of Hamrick & Evans, 818-763-5292, www.hamricklawfirm.com.

 
Posted at 13:27 PM
Topic: Construction Law
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