Man Killed At Wixom Construction Site Urges Comment On Safety From Personal Injury Lawyer

LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman offered his sympathies to the family and friends of a construction worker who was killed on the job. Moverman said that although this may be a difficult time for those involved, he hopes a thorough investigation will reveal ways in which to improve the safety of workers for the future.

CBS Detroit stated in a report that the 58-year-old man fell from the top of a four-story building shortly after 3 p.m. at a job site on Alpha Drive near I-96 and Wixom Road. He had been on top of a hotel that was under construction when he fell 46 feet to the ground. He was later pronounced dead. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the local medical examiner are looking into the incident.

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. 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.

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.