OSHA Finds Construction Company Fails In Fall Protection, Prompting Comment From Personal Injury Lawyer

July 30, 2016 – – LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman commented on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) recent findings that a construction company failed in fall protection. Moverman said violations such as the ones alleged by the OSHA put workers in the construction industry in everyday danger.

EHS Today stated in an article that Chief Administrative Law Judge Covette Rooney recently upheld citations and penalties for Flintlock Construction Service, finding the company had knowledge of safety hazards at a 23-story hotel project in Manhattan, New York. An OSHA inspection found that Flintlock failed to protect employees working on scaffolds from potentially fatal falls of up to 26 feet, according to the article. In September 2013, OSHA cited Flintlock for willful and serious violations and proposed $249,920 in penalties. The company appealed the decision stating the violations were not willful.

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 is currently looking to assist those individuals who have been injured in a construction accident and qualifying individuals may be entitled to financial compensation.The firm has successfully obtained millions in settlements for those victims and strongly believes in fighting for victims’ deserved compensation. In one case, Attorney Thomas Moverman won a victim $5.3 million for an airport worker whose leg was caught in a motorized air stair.

“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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