Following Death Of Iowa Construction Worker, Personal Injury Lawyer Offers Sympathies

LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman recently expressed his condolences to the friends and family of a construction worker who was killed on the job. Moverman said that although these incidents are always disheartening, he hopes that they will serve as an impetus for change in the way construction worker safety is handled.

The Quad-City Times reported last month that a man died in a construction accident at a wind turbine in central Iowa.The accident occurred Thursday afternoon near Huxley when the 31-year-old man fell about 30 feet inside a wind turbine that was under construction. Further details were not released, the news source said.

The OSHA reported that more than 20 percent of all work-related fatalities in 2013 were employed in the construction industry and that one in five of the 4,821 reported fatalities in 2014 were also in the construction industry.The most common forms of injury in the construction business include slips, trips, and falls. These types of accidents in addition to electrocution and being stuck between objects or struck by them, accounted for over half of construction worker deaths in 2014, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman have been representing victims of construction accidents for years.The firm is currently looking to assist those individuals who have been injured in a construction accident and qualifying individuals may be entitled to financial compensation.They have successfully obtained millions in settlements for those victims and strongly believe in fighting for the compensation victims need and deserve. In one case, Attorney Thomas Moverman won a victim $2.6 million for a worker who injured his knee and back in a fall from defective scaffolding.

“Most of these actions help to make our environment and the workplace safer so that others will not have to endure these painful losses,” said Moverman of the firm’s work.

For more information on construction injuries, or for a free consultation, contact an attorney with Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman at (646)-846-4496.