Construction Injury Lawyers

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York

Construction sites are notorious for mishaps and serious worker injuries. Each year, more workers are killed doing construction work than employees in any other major industrial sector.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1,224 construction workers died from job-related injuries in 2004, an 8 percent increase over the previous year.

Among the most common causes of serious construction injuries are accidents involving falling objects, workers falling from ladders, scaffolding and other elevated structures, mishaps involving motor vehicles, cranes, forklifts and other machinery. Electrocution, carbon monoxide poisoning and trench cave-ins also cause serious worker injuries and death.

Kline & Specter, P.C., attorneys have represented clients who suffered severe construction injuries and other work-related injuries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. If you or someone you know suffered a severe injury or death on a construction site, you may want to contact a construction lawyer for a free evaluation of your case.

Kline & Specter, based in Philadelphia, even offers a free booklet titled Injured At Work -- A Guide To Your Rights, which provides basic information about what you should do if you suffer a construction injury as well as information about an array of available benefits if you are hurt on the job. (Get the free booklet.)

If you or someone you know was seriously hurt on the job, you may want to contact an occupational or construction injury lawyer for a free evaluation of your case.

Workplace injuries range from broken limbs to those involving more severe brain injuries and spinal cord injuries, even death. Among Kline & Specter's legal victories for working men and women are several with spectacular settlements or jury verdicts. They are:

* A lawsuit in which the firm won a $36.4 million settlement for a worker killed in an explosion at a Delaware oil refinery (see Davis/Motiva) The settlement, announced in September 2003, is considered the largest for a single-victim fatality ever reported in the United States.

* Two months later, in a case that spanned seven years and several appeals, an Allegheny County jury handed down a verdict of nearly $7.9 million for a Pittsburgh worker seriously injured in a fall from a forklift. (see Drum)

* On Jan. 21, 2004, a jury in Luzerne County handed down a $19.1 million verdict for a woman who was struck and seriously injured by a van as she worked on a roadside construction job. (see McManamon).

In a recent case, the firm won a $3 million verdict in November 2006 for a Philadelphia ironworker who fell down a stairwell after temporary lighting failed at a construction site. The worker sustained severe neck and shoulder injuries. (See the McCormick case.)

In an earlier case, the family of a man crushed to death in a crane accident settled a suit against the manufacturer, seller and installer of the crane's control system. The settlement, reached in November 2002, was for $4.4 million. (see Yankosky).

A workplace injury case was among one of Kline & Specter’s first victories as the firm secured settlements totaling $1.25 million in 1995 for Demetrius Atwood, a Philadelphia hotel employee injured by a malfunctioning elevator.

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For other Kline & Specter litigation results, click here to see our list of Major Victories.