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Personal Injury Lawyer Comments On Injured Worker Suing Stadium Contractor

August 03, 2016 – – LipsigLawyers.com’s Thomas Moverman stated recently that a lawsuit against the general contractor of Mercedes Benz Stadium is an example of the issues many construction workers face with on-the-job injuries.

According to Constructionequipment.com, a construction worker has filed a lawsuit against the general contractor of Mercedes Benz Stadium claiming the group’s negligence led to his injuries. The lawsuit states that he and other workers were directed to move a 42-foot-high metal shoring tower by using a forklift, rather than properly dismantling the tower as specified by the tower manufacturer. When the tower collapsed,the man was struck and pinned beneath the tower, and was severely injured, the article said.

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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Contact LipsigLawyers.com:

Marc Freund
877-711-9545
mfreund@lipsig.com
40 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038

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