PEORIA PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER Workplace Accidents

PEORIA PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER

Workplace Accidents

Mistakes happen in the workplace, just as they do in other parts of life. But when an avoidable mistake in the workplace causes death or a lifelong disability, that explanation just isn’t enough. State and federal laws strictly regulate workplace safety, and workplaces should have their own safety rules and procedures. But all too often, managers and owners interested in saving a few dollars ignore those rules or find ways around them. Other times, workers just don’t follow them, out of carelessness or bad communication.

Our team of workplace accident professionals has successfully prosecuted claims against the owners of both commercial and private property throughout Arizona. Our attorneys work with safety engineers, property management experts, industrial hygienists, architects, and engineers to identify and prove fault and to secure compensation on your behalf.

Our workplace accident practice team includes lawyers representing injured clients against private landowners, government building owners, corporate building owners and others who own and manage real property. We have successfully brought claims on behalf of injured clients for workplace accident related cases involving:

  • Rotted steps, stairways, and exterior decks
  • Trip-and-fall hazards
  • Inadequate security
  • Slip-and-fall injuries
  • Falling objects
  • Unsafe stairwells
  • Poor lighting

Securing financial compensation in workplace accident cases can be difficult because of the legal requirements for holding owners, builders, and occupiers responsible. Those issues include clarifying factual issues of ownership, responsibility and medical causation.

Our legal team is highly experienced in helping injured Arizonans navigate the complicated array of legal and evidentiary issues that a workplace accident case can pose.

In addition to representing individuals injured by improperly maintained homes, unsafe workplaces, malfunctioning elevators and escalators and trip-and-fall hazards our attorneys handle cases involving inadequate commercial security measures.

You have a right to be safe when you are in a hotel, motel, apartment complex or other public or commercial place. Crime prevention and security, or lack thereof, play an important role in cases where someone is the victim of a crime in a public or commercial place.

Inadequate security claims can arise out of injuries on most any type of property, including:

  • Apartment buildings
  • Parking lots and ramps
  • Stadiums
  • Amusement parks
  • Shopping malls
  • Hotels and motels
  • Bars and restaurants

All of these places invite the public to be present, and often to spend money, and you have a right to be safe from injury while on the property.

Some of the most common serious injuries from workplace or construction site accidents include:

  • Falls and impacts from falling objects
  • Automobile and equipment accidents
  • Body parts caught in heavy machinery
  • Exposure to toxic substances, including long-term exposure that builds up as well as sudden and severe exposure
  • Explosions and fires
  • Electrocution
  • Long-term ergonomic damage
  • Violent crime

These on-the-job work injuries can kill their victims or leave them with amputations, chronic pain, multiple fractures, spinal injuries or brain damage. These are catastrophic injuries that rob victims of essential parts of their lives — often including their careers. Even when workers’ compensation insurance works the way it should, these injuries can be extremely expensive to treat and live with. When there’s no workers’ compensation or insurers don’t play fair, it just adds insult to literal injury. If you were injured at work through no fault of your own, you may file a workplace accident lawsuit to get compensation for costs caused by the accident as well as your injury, pain and suffering, any permanent disability and more.

If you have sustained injuries as a result of a workplace accident, you have the right to hold the guilty party responsible. A workplace accident attorney can help you recover financial compensation for the losses you have suffered, including medical bills, property damage, lost wages, and pain and suffering from your injury.