If you or anyone you know has suffered an injury while working on a construction site please contact the Miami lawyers at the Friedland Law Group to assist you in obtaining the money you deserve for lost wages, medical expenses and scarring or disfigurement the accident has caused. Working in the field of construction is a dangerous occupation. In the U.S. there were 1,225 fatal occupational injuries in the construction sector in 2001 with an incidence rate of 13.3 per 100,000 employed workers. For the same year the construction industry experienced 481,400 nonfatal injuries and illnesses at a rate of 7.9 per 100 full-time workers in the industry. Construction has about 6% of U.S. workers, but 20% of the fatalities which is the largest number of fatalities reported for any industry sector. The problem is not that the hazards and risks are unknown, it is that they are very difficult to control the constantly changing job site. The leading causes of death and injuries among construction workers are falling from high elevations, motor vehicle accidents, machines, structures collapsing, electrocution and being stuck by falling objects. Many of these injuries are serious in nature due to the dangers associated with these construction sites. Many of the injuries suffered in construction jobsites include death, brain trauma, spinal cord injury, fractured backs, necks, paraplegia and quadriplegia. |
