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Workplace Injury Lawyers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
800-597-9585
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Accidents can and do happen on the job. Each year, thousands of workers are seriously hurt and killed in mishaps at mines, factories, agricultural operations, construction sites and at various other workplaces.
Among the most common causes of serious work injuries are accidents involving falling objects, workers falling from elevated equipment or structures, highway accidents and those involving cars, trucks, forklifts, factory machinery and other devices.
Other causes include electrocution, carbon monoxide poisoning and trench cave-ins.
More than three million occupational injuries each year are serious enough to require hospital treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In one year alone, 2004, the agency recorded 5,703 deaths attributable to work injuries.
Kline & Specter, P.C., attorneys have represented clients who suffered severe work injuries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. If you or someone you know suffered a severe injury or death in a work-related accident, you may want to contact a work injury lawyer for a free evaluation of your case.
Kline & Specter, a Philadelphia law firm, 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 or work-related 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 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 in February 2007 won an $8 million settlement for a worker killed when he fell into a high-temperature pulping pit at a Manayunk paper mill. The case involved a lengthy dispute over which corporations were responsible. (See Green.)
The firm also won two recent cases for ironworkers. In November 2006, a jury awarded $3 million to a Philadelphia ironworker who sustained neck and shoulder injuries in a fall down a stairwell after temporary lighting failed at a construction site. (See McCormick 1 2) In December 2006, Kline & Specter negotiated a $1.7 million settlement for a Lehigh County ironworker suverely injured in a fall at a cold storage facility. (See Broadbent.)
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.
Click here to contact a work injury lawyer for a free evaluation of your case.
For other Kline & Specter litigation results, click here to see our list of Major Victories.
Click here to see Tom Kline interviewed about "cancer clusters" on Good Day Philadelphia on Fox TV, 3/8/07
Resources:
CDC Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2004
- Couple wins verdict of nearly $3 million in husband’s workplace injury suit against Bobcat Co. The man sustained severe and permanent injuries after being hit by a backhoe boom when the machine’s operator inadvertently pushed the hydraulic control.(Full story)
- Study shows that people who work with formaldehyde – such as beauticians, pharmacists, morticians, chemists, lab technicians, doctors and photographers – are at greater risk for developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. (Full story)
- A New York man who was injured in a construction site accident settles for $3 million. The man sustained multiple pelvis and hip fractures when a pipe connection separated and the pipe exploded.(Full story)
- Jury awards a woman working as a highway construction flagger $14.6 million after an accident that caused the amputation of one of her legs. The workplace injury case occurred when the woman was run over by a concrete cutter with an inoperable emergency stop button.(Full story)
- Jury awards $1.2 million in damages to an injured BNSF Railway worker in workplace injury case.(Full story)
- PA Supreme Court denies further hearing on Penelec utility company’s appeal of $3.5 million award for a man who was shocked by a Penelec wire in workplace injury case.(Full story)
- Jury awards wife $2 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages in a workplace injury case in which her husband was trapped and suffocated inside a machine he was paid to run.(Full story)
- Across the United States, construction ranks as the most dangerous industry, representing about 20 percent of all workplace-related fatalities, according to federal statistics.(Full story)
- As a group, Latino construction workers are more likely than any others to experience workplace injuries, including fatalities, according to US labor statistics.(Full story)
- Federal jury orders Lincoln Electric Holdings and four other companies to pay $17.5 million to a welder who claims he got sick from the fumes he inhaled in workplace injury case. (Full story)
- More than half of New Jersey's hospital nurses suffered workplace injuries from lifting or moving patients and nearly two-thirds say they were exposed to so-called "superbugs" like MRSA.(Full story)*
- An estimated 4 million U.S. workers will suffer a workplace injury or illness in 2007.(Full story)
- Exposure to hazardous fumes and aerosolized heavy metals may put welders at risk of losing olfactory abilities, researchers here said. (Full story)
- Number of workers killed on the job in PA increases 7 percent in 2006 to 240, the highest since 1997 when 259 work-related fatalities were reported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.(Full story)
- Vermont Superior Court will hold a new trial to consider damages for pain and suffering that a Central Vermont Public Service employee experienced six years ago as a result of serious spinal injuries from workplace injury. The court erred when it awarded her "zero damages" for pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life, the high court has ruled.(Full story)
- A longshoreman injured in a dock accident three years ago has settled a personal injury lawsuit for $13.2 million.(Full story)
- Nurses at Brockton Hospital are being punched, slapped, bitten and scratched by patients, according to federal workplace inspection report.(Full story)
- Iron worker seriously hurt by a 1 1/2-ton slab of fiberglass that plummeted from the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx receives a $15 million settlement.(Full story)
- Bronchiolitis obliterans -- called "popcorn lung" when it affects workers making butter flavoring for microwave popcorn -- has been identified in other sectors of the flavoring industry.
(Full story)
Click on the links below to learn more about some of
Kline & Specter's construction and workplace injury cases.
CONSTRUCTION AND OTHER WORKPLACE INJURY CASES
THE ATWOOD CASE
Employee hurt in elevator at city hotel
Jury handed down verdict against elevator maker
THE DAVIS/MOTIVA CASE
Worker dies in oil refinery explosion
Probe revealed hazards, record $36.4M settlement reached
THE DRUM CASE
Worker hurt in fall from fork-lift
A jury in Pittsburgh awarded $7.9 million
THE LEPERA CASE
Worker hurt by concrete spill
Construction injury nets worker $2 million
THE MCMANAMON CASE
Woman hurt at roadside construction job
Mother of three struck by van awarded $19.1M
THE VASSILLO CASE
Bricklayer injures neck in fall
Philadelphia jury awards $6.5 million
THE YANKOSKY CASE
Man is crushed in crane mishap
Case settled for $4.4 million over faulty controls
Kline & Specter handles cases in the areas:
In Pennsylvania: Allentown, Altoona, Bethlehem, Doylestown, Erie, Franklin, Gettysburg, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Hershey, Johnstown, Lancaster, Media, Norristown, Pittsburgh, Pottstown, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, State College, Sunbury, West Chester, Williamsport, York.
In New Jersey: Atlantic City, Cape May, Cherry Hill, Hackensack, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Montclair, Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, Union City, Voorhees.
In Delaware: Dover and Newark regions.
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