Personal Injury Lawyer Notes Importance Of Construction Safety For Everyone Following Pedestrian Accident

LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman recently commented on the importance of construction safety following an incident involving a pedestrian who was injured by falling material. Moverman added that although the protection of construction employees is paramount, the same precautions used for workers should be evaluated for effectiveness involving the protection of others in the area as well.

News recently broke in New York concerning a pedestrian who was struck by a wooden plank near a construction site, according to ConstructionEquipmentGuide.com. The man had been waiting for a walk signal while heading northbound on Fifth Avenue near 30th Street when a wooden plank came loose from a nearby safety panel and fell onto him, according to other reports from the Daily News. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after being helped by nearby vendors and passersby.

Construction work is a dangerous task for both workers and those in the area of construction zones. 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.