Personal Injury Lawyer Commends Officials On Supervision Mandate For Construction Sites

July 16, 2016 – – LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman recently commented on a temporarily implemented mandate that requires more supervision of crawler cranes. Moverman noted that the step is an important one in ensuring the safety of workers in Lower Manhattan.

According to The Real Deal, officials implemented the temporary mandate following the collapse of a Manhattan building in February that killed one person and injured others. The mandate will require safety checks at each construction site at the beginning of each workday as well as supervision while cranes are being lifted or lowered. The mandate also requires operators to monitor the weather and ensure that cranes are shut down properly under a new “wind action plan,” the news source said.

The mandate comes at an appropriate time given February’s events and the ongoing risks that construction workers face daily. 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.

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