San Francisco Construction Injury Attorneys
The San Francisco California construction accident lawyers at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have helped people who have been the victims of construction injuries be awarded the maximum compensation they legally can since the late 1970s. We have represented the full scope of possible injuries from brain injuries and construction amputation accidents to welding injuries and jack hammer injury accidents. We will work hard for you as we want to continue being the best San Francisco construction injury attorneys around. Our successful reputation throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as top construction accident lawyers speaks for itself: We are hard working, caring and experienced construction injury attorneys who will work tirelessly for their clients and help them have the resources, time and energy to focus on healing as we do the hard work.
How to File a Construction Lawsuit Claim
If you have questions or if you need advice as to how to file a construction lawsuit claim or how to file a workers’ compensation claim for a construction accident injury, call us today at (415) 200-0701. Regardless of your intention to file on your own or to use one of our experienced attorneys, we would be willing to discuss your case during a free consultation:
- Options for how you may be able to do-it-yourself.
- Answers to questions you may have about how we can help you and your family navigate the legal system during this very difficult time.
- The costs and financial commitment needed for litigation and going to trial and how our injury firm can help with that unfortunate aspect of the legal process.
- What’s involved in filing your legal claim(s) for workers’ comp and/or third party personal injury.
- How we can make your case efficient, simple, and successful.
- Potential litigation issues including: pleadings, investigation, legal evidentiary standards of proof and legal requirements, expert and lay witness depositions, written discovery, law and motion, types of causes of action, potential special and general damages including: bodily injury, medical treatment, loss of earnings and other damages and benefits you are entitled to recover.
Our experienced San Francisco Bay Area lawyers and staff are available to take the load, stress and pressure of a lawsuit off you. If after meeting with us, and hearing about all the steps needed to file and handle your construction injury claim, know that we are always here for you. We wish you and your loved ones all the best and the quickest of recoveries.
Contact Our Firm Today
It is important for your long term health and for your family that you are awarded the maximum compensation and the maximum benefits that you deserve under the law. Most likely, you will need a lawyer to do that so please call us at (415) 200-0701 to schedule a free initial consultation as we will answer your questions and discuss your options. We will guide you throughout the process, properly and fully investigate your construction injury case and ensure you are receiving competent and timely medical care. To make our services even better is the fact that our law firm is very affordable. Not only is the initial case consultation and case evaluation free, we will even work on a contingency basis so you will not owe or pay our firm anything unless and until we win your case. We are ready to start your San Francisco work injury, workers’ compensation, and personal injury case so call us today at (415) 200-0701.
SF Construction Workers’ Comp
It is the law for all employees (construction workers included) to be covered by their employer’s workers’ compensation insurance regardless of whether they are part-time or full time employees. Workmen comp insurance has the potential to provide you with assistance if you have been the victim of a work accident or if you have been hurt while in the scope of your employment. It is also true that your place of work is not allowed to penalize, fire you or let you go for filing a workers’ comp claim. Most of the time after an employee has been injured on the job, their employer is required to pay that employee disability out of their workman comp insurance.
Workers’ Compensation Can be Limited
It is important to know that workers’ compensation insurance has many limits to compensation including that it does not allow for pain and suffering compensation. The workers’ compensation insurance that is paid for by your employer could pay disability, income, vocational rehabilitation, death benefits, medical benefits, medical expenses, and/or permanent disability compensation (when the injury and/or circumstances warrants). One common example of a work comp claim for construction workers in the greater San Francisco area are musculoskeletal disorders. MSD injuries build up over a period of time from the tradesmen and worker’s tasks on the job such as their motions, bending, exerting too much force, twisting, or working in an uncomfortable position. Be sure to call DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo to talk about your injury and your workmen compensation claim.
We Will Answer all of Your Questions during the Free Consultation
We will give you complete answers to your questions about what happens after an injury at a work site when you have the no-cost meeting with us. This includes if you are wondering what the workman comp benefits could be for your case, how SDI (State Disability Insurance) works, and how much a workers’ comp attorney costs or how much a work injury lawyer costs. We want every injured person or their family can have their day in court.
Additional Third Parties
Construction sites have the potential to be chaotic with so many various people, machines, workers, delivery trucks, equipment, raw materials, debris and vehicles all moving in different directions at differing speeds. Due to this, many construction accidents not only qualify for workers’ compensation because the victim was injured on the job but they also have a chance of qualifying for a civil third party work injury claim.
Recover Damages In Addition to Your Workers’ Comp Benefits
A third party is when one or more responsible parties are found to also be at fault for your job accident other than just your employer or place of work. By adding the third party case, you and your family will have a chance to receive more compensation than what is allowed by the workers' comp laws. A third party on a construction site could be a building owner, the training company, developer, the land owner, subcontractor, the government or a government agency, the equipment manufacturer, tool manufacturer, or the general contractor. Call one of our local San Francisco or Oakland workers’ compensation accident attorneys today to discuss this and all of your many options. It is especially important to have our prudent guidance early on after the injury since legal cases that have third parties also at fault need to be coordinated at all points in the process since a mistake in any of the trials or procedures could affect the other(s). You will have excellent Bay Area workers’ compensation and work injury attorneys who will be with you all the way.
Government Liability
All of the federal, state and local levels of government have rules and standards in place to try to keep construction workers and the rest of its citizens safe. These standards are continually updated and reviewed as new technologies, new statistics and risks are discovered. This includes inspecting projects, issuing permits to builders, working with developers, keeping the streets and speed of traffic safe, and manufacturing and continuously improving the codes for safety standards, work environment, and procedures. There are also many ways that a government can be directly at fault as well. This government oversight can create a duty and responsibility of the building, safety, permit and/or planning division of any municipalities, state and federal governments. Most cities, county or statewide agencies have a building and planning division that oversees commercial and residential construction projects. We have over three decades of experience with government liability cases in San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, the East Bay, Marin, the Peninsula, the South Bay, Northern California and across the state, and we can help you. We are actually very involved in the statewide consumer protection group called Consumer Attorneys of California.
OSHA and Employee Safety
One branch of our government that has continued to try to keep American workers as safe as possible is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (www.osha.gov). They have many missions but one of their main tasks is a tall task: to keep work environments safe, healthful, and injury-free. The men and women who work for OSHA devote their careers to preventing job injuries so they were troubled to report that even now after decades of adding layers of safety to jobs across the United States of America: “Every day in this country, more than 14 workers lose their lives in preventable workplace tragedies.” Due to that reality, they are continually attempting to improve the rules, safety standards and workplace injury prevention programs so that less people get hurt on the job, amputated by a punch press, hit by a falling tool, maimed at the construction site, crushed at the factory, cut by a power saw, fall off of a ladder, pinned by a machine, inhaled too much smoke or chemicals, or injured while on the job. Their goal is to set standards and laws in place to avoid construction accidents and construction injuries.
OSHA Helps to Enforce the Safety Regulations
OSHA is determined to help construction employees avoid injuries by also improving standards for what counts as adequate training or continuing education, how often training needs to occur, how much and what does it take to be a certified trainer. OSHA states that they will protect the names of all employees or contractors who complain about work equipment’s worn status, their job site’s OSHA violations, unsafe working conditions, and potential construction accident risks and even keep the names anonymous, if requested to do so.
Bilingual San Francisco Law Firm
The law firm of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo is ready to serve you as we have San Francisco Bay Area bilingual construction injury attorneys. If you prefer reading this page or any page in Spanish, just click on the En Español link in the upper right hand corner.
Injuries with Machines & Tools
A construction site is filled with different types of heavy equipment, dangerous tools and machine operators who have a whole range of skills and training. Possible tool and machine accidents on the San Francisco, Oakland or Northern California construction site include defective machines, chainsaw injury, ladder injury, table saw injury, concrete accident, saw, drill or hammer injury injury, automobile or car accidents, lathe accident, concrete saw and circular saw injury, welding injury, motorcycle accidents, conveyor belt injury, sheet metal injury, being caught in a baling machine or punch press, tractor injury, random orbital sander injury, backhoe injury, catwalk fall, load dropping injury, load shifting accident, scaffold collapsing, scaffold injury, power tools injury, angle grinder accident, floor sander injury and radial arm saw injury. Employers, supervisors, manufacturers and distributers must be aware of potential injuries and proactively work to prevent them.
More Potential Building Accidents
Next is a few additional industrial or residential remodeling construction utensils that employers and employees need to receive complete and proper safety training. They include an impact wrench accident, needle scaler injury, crane injury, ceramic tile cutter injury, nail gun or power stapler injury, air compressor injury, jointer accident, heat gun injury, disc sander accident, jigsaw injury, steel off saw accident, trimmer accident, pneumatic torque wrench accident, sabre saw accident, rotary tool injury, diamond blade injury, scrollsaw injury, elevator injury, wood router injury, jack hammer injury injury, alligator shear injury, reciprocating saw accident, biscuit joiner and bandsaw accident, or defective products. Some of the biggest makers of construction tools are Porter-Cable, Old Milwaukee, Caterpillar, Hitachi, Bobcat, Stanley, DeWalt, Black & Decker, Craftsman, Makita, Ridgid, Amada, Husky, Snap-On, and Ryobi. It is important to be aware of other coworkers or subcontractors who are using tools and machines that are not functioning properly or are worn down.
Employee Safety Is Always the Most Important Concern
There are also many vehicles, machines and pieces of heavy equipment that can cause everyone on the job site harm, catastrophic injuries or work accidents. On a job site, it is possible to have a scraper accident, highway bottom dump accident, backhoe loader and backhoe injury, asphalt paver accident, feller buncher injury, telescopic handler accident, aerial work platform or lift table injury, excavator or bagger injury, yarder injury, vibratory compacter injury, drilling machine accident, concrete batch plant injury, dragline excavator injury, dredger injury, harvester injury, cure rig accident, soil stabilizer accident, pneumatic tire compactor accident, forklift injury, street sweeper injury, wheel forwarder accident, slipform paver injury, roller, articulated hauler and articulated truck accident, dump truck injury, rotary tiller accident, road roller and roller compactor injury, stomper concrete drop hammer injury injury, steam shovel accident, wheel tractor-scraper accident, tilt-up injury, cherry picker injury, fresno scraper accident, lowboy injury, tunnel boring machine accident, track loader, bulldozer accident, front shovel accident, underground mining equipment injury, track skidder and track-type tractor injury, or a venture mixer injury. It is critical to demand that your general contractor requires all the employees working on the site to have adequate training for all the machines, vehicles, equipment and tools that they’ll be using.
How Construction Accidents Happen
A construction site can consist of many workers doing separate but nearby jobs. It can be quite a chaotic scene. The trades that may be occurring all at the same time include work by crane operators, street fixers, carpet layers, project managers, electricians, roofers, fencers, plasterers, plumbers, pipefitters, tin knockers, painters, landscapers, bricklayers, laborers, concrete finishers, heating and air conditioning technicians, tile layers, welders, truck drivers, carpenters, tile setters, janitors, inspectors, supervisors, architects, concrete pourers, concrete mixers, diggers, geologists, and heavy equipment operators. Communication, scheduling and planning are usually the keys to preventing injuries on the job.
California Law Requires that Job-sites Be Safe
Injuries happen on a construction job for many reasons including: worn-out tools, misusing equipment, faulty equipment or wiring, lack of proper safety protections or safety inspections, lack of adequate construction or trades workers, lack of adequate training for construction workers, hung-over coworkers, tired coworkers, defective products, lack of proper safety gear, substance abuse by coworkers while they are on the job, and sub-contractor negligence, developer negligence, foreman negligence, general contractor negligence, coworker negligence, and property owner negligence. Landowners should also be aware of premises liability as they could be held partially or fully at fault for many injuries and accidents that happen on their land.
Construction Injuries & Accidents
A construction site is most likely full of potential injury risks for construction workers and laborers. This danger is a top reason as to why it remains so critical for safety that OSHA, employers, contractors, land owners and supervisors do everything they can to follow the Occupational Safety and Health Administration workplace safety code to keep employees protected from accidents. The following are ways that happen in Northern California that a construction worker can be injured while working: corrosive chemical injury, pit cave-in, hammer injury or drill slip, slipping or tripping and falling, being caught in, between, or under machines, equipment or objects, scraps and debris falling injury, fire, compressed gas injury, falling off of a cherry picker, trench cave-in, faulty wiring, rebar impalement injury, reinforcing bar injury, hole cave-in, falling through a skylight, tunnel cave-in, lifting injuries, being struck by a falling rail, beam, tool, wood board or piece of equipment, and exploding concrete lines.
Other types of injuries that can happen at a build site include a crush injury, pallets failing, being crushed by a truck, crane, bulldozer, grader, pile driver or trencher, being run over by truck, forklift, tractor, or dump truck, a tool or load not being strapped in or harnessed correctly, derrick injury, safety rail failures, a nail through a boot or shoe injury, gas or chemical explosions, building or piece of equipment, exhaustion, heat stroke, asbestos, lung injury, accidental electrocution, falling off of a roof, and wrongful death. It is important for all construction workers to watch out for each other and try to help each other avoid these awful injuries.
Permanent Construction Injuries Usually Effect You and Your Family
If you do not have your own doctor for your construction injury or if you need help getting medical treatment, we can help you find a local doctor that will give you the attention that you deserve. Some of the possible results of construction accidents are: concussions, brain injury, lacerations, amputation, deep cuts, eye injury, blindness, contusions, muscle strain, back injury, broken bones, coma, neck injury, burns, ligament sprain, becoming deformed, being crushed, heavy bleeding, cuts, becoming paralyzed and death are all possible outcomes of construction accidents and job site injuries. Since 1979, the San Francisco, Marin, Oakland, and Bay Area construction injury attorneys of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo have helped construction workers with their legal injury cases for the above injuries, results and much more.
Free Initial Consultation – Call Us
We offer a free initial consultation and case evaluation. We are well known throughout San Francisco, California, Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County, Peninsula, East Bay, Sacramento, San Bernardino, Riverside, Long Beach, San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles as top construction accident attorneys who know how to help you. If you chose our firm, we will work for you on a contingency basis so you will not owe us anything unless we win your construction accident or injury case. The San Francisco construction injury attorneys at DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo will offer to meet you at your home or your hospital room if you are unable to come to our office. We are available to meet during the normal hours of Monday through Friday between 8:30am and 5:30pm and we will also meet you, by appointment, on Saturdays, Sundays and in the evening. Many people throughout Northern California consider us to be the best construction accident attorneys around and we will do our best to maintain that excellent reputation as construction lawyers.
Law Offices of DiMarco | Araujo | Montevideo
San Francisco, California
A Law Firm You Can Trust: (415) 200-0701
