Personal Injury Lawyer Comments On Associated Builders And Contractors’ Legal Challenge To OSHA

July 19, 2016 – – LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman stated that as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Associated Builders and Contractors differ on rules regarding post-accident drug testing, it is important not to lose sight of the necessary steps involved with worker safety.

Construction Dive reported that Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) have filed a legal challenge to block the implementation of the OSHA’s new electronic recordkeeping rule. The rule limits post-accident drug testing because the OSHA believes these tests are an invasion of privacy and will likely keep employees from reporting workplace accidents or injuries, according to Construction Dive. The rule would eliminate testing unless drugs or alcohol were a likely cause of the accident. ABC argues that this testing is necessary in determining the cause of accidents and further preventing new ones. Additionally, ABC is concerned because the new rule would mean that all injury data would become public.

Construction site injuries are a significant concern for today’s workers. 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.

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