Personal Injury Lawyer Comments On Incident Involving Worker Hit With Cinder Block

LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman recently commented on an incident involving a New York construction worker who was critically injured on the job. Moverman stated that he wishes the man a quick and successful recovery and hopes that tighter safety guidelines can prevent these types of incidents in the future.

According to the New York Daily News, the worker had been doing construction on the Eastern Parkway near Dean Street in Ocean Hill when the incident occurred at around 1:30 p.m. The 44-year-old worker was rushed to the hospital after a cinder block fell about 5 feet before striking him, the report 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 is currently looking to assist those individuals who have been injured in a construction accident and qualifying individuals may be entitled to financial compensation.The firm has successfully obtained millions in settlements for those victims and strongly believes in fighting for victims’ deserved compensation. In one case, Attorney Thomas Moverman won a victim $5.3 million for an airport worker whose leg was caught in a motorized air stair.

“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.