Workers’ Compensation Lawyers

Barham McCoy has a special interest in representing construction workers that are injured at work. Construction workers play an important role in the infrastructure of our community and they need solid representation when work injuries prevent them from being unable to perform their job.

Construction accidents can happen due to a variety of factors, and they often result from a combination of unsafe conditions, human error, or equipment failures. Here are some factors that contribute to construction accidents:

Unsafe Working Conditions: 

• Lack of Protective Gear: Failure to wear proper personal protective equipment (PPE) such as helmets, gloves, safety glasses, and steel-toed boots can increase the risk of injuries.
• Poor Housekeeping: Untidy and cluttered work areas can lead to slips, trips, and falls.

Human Error:

• Lack of Training: Insufficient training on the use of equipment or unfamiliarity with safety protocols can result in accidents.
• Fatigue: Tired workers are more prone to mistakes and accidents. Long working hours without adequate breaks can contribute to fatigue.
• Inattentiveness:  Lack of focus, distraction, or being unaware of one’s surroundings can lead to accidents.

Unsafe Practices:

• Failure to Follow Safety Procedures: Ignoring established safety protocols and procedures can lead to accidents. This includes failure to use fall protection, scaffolding, or other safety measures.
• Improper Use of Tools and Equipment: Incorrect use or maintenance of tools and equipment can result in accidents. This may include defective or poorly maintained machinery.

Falls:

• Lack of Fall Protection: Working at heights without proper fall protection measures, such as guardrails, safety nets, or personal fall arrest systems, can lead to serious injuries.

Electrical Accidents:

• Contact with Live Wires: Workers coming into contact with live electrical wires or equipment can result in electric shocks, burns, or electrocution.

Struck-by Accidents:

• Falling Objects: Items or tools falling from heights can strike workers below, causing injuries.
• Vehicle Accidents: Collisions involving construction vehicles, such as cranes, forklifts, or trucks, can lead to serious injuries.

Trench and Excavation Accidents:

• Cave-Ins: Trench collapses pose a significant risk, especially when proper shoring or protective systems are not in place.

Chemical Exposure:

• Exposure to Hazardous Materials: Contact with toxic substances or failure to use appropriate protective measures when working with chemicals can lead to health issues.

Mechanical Failures:

• Equipment Malfunctions: Failure or malfunction of construction equipment, such as cranes, scaffolding, or power tools, can result in accidents.

Weather Conditions:

• Adverse Weather: Working in adverse weather conditions, such as rain, snow, or high winds, can increase the risk of accidents.

Preventing construction accidents requires a comprehensive approach that includes proper training, adherence to safety protocols, regular equipment maintenance, and a commitment to creating a safe working environment.

Unfortunately, accidents happen and that is when Barham McCoy steps in.

Construction injuries are serious and oftentimes affect the person’s ability to provide for their families.

Unruly or abusive patients?

Pain after continuously lifting patients?

Exposure to toxic chemicals?

Nurses and medical assistants are the backbone of our healthcare system. Their role is so critical that they often become the most vulnerable to injury. Barham McCoy stands with all healthcare support staff and helps to get just compensation for workplace injuries.

The most common workplace injuries nurses face are:

• Overexertion: Overexertion injuries happen when a nurse uses excessive physical effort, repetitive motions, and repeated twisting, lifting, and bending. Most overexertion injuries happen when a nurse needs to move or lift a patient to provide care. Overexertion injuries can result in muscle sprains or tears, back injuries, knee injuries, and other muscular and skeletal ailments.
• Slips and Falls: After overexertion, slips and falls are the second-leading cause of injuries for nurses. Hospitals and doctor’s offices often have tripping hazards and obstacles caused by water, ice, bodily fluids, grease, and other liquids. There are also cords and other hazards that can easily cause an accident.
• Harmful Substance Exposure: Hospitals and healthcare facilities contain many toxic chemicals that are either a byproduct of treatments or designed to keep the spaces clean and sanitized. Nurses may encounter cleaning chemicals, organic compounds, sterilant, medications, and latex. Accidental exposure can be harmful and injure a nurse.
• Violence: Sometimes, patients in a hospital setting can become confused or agitated. This can lead to violent outbursts, most often directed at the nursing care team. Research indicates the incidence rate amongst nurses was about three times greater than the rate of violent events for all other professions.

At Barham McCoy, we fight hard and have recovered large settlements for nurses and medical assistants injured on the job. Our dedication to providing superior service in worker’s compensation matters will help you win your claim. The insurance company should not control your outcome.

Call Barham McCoy first, so that you can consider all of your options and walk away knowing that you have a dedicated legal team to take on your case. Let us help you win your case and get the benefits you deserve after your occupational injury.