Category: Construction Accidents

Wrongful Death on Construction Sites: Protecting Workers’ Families in Atlanta

Wrongful death construction accidents are common and often preventable. These incidents usually stem from overlooked safety protocols, equipment failures, or a clear-cut lack of proper site management. When a life is lost, the emotional and financial aftermath can overwhelm the deceased's loved ones. The intricate web of potential liability means that families need an experienced construction site fatality lawyer to uncover the truth and hold negligent parties accountable. Also, the int...

Maximizing Your Construction Accident Claim: Damages You Can Recover

Every day, workers face the potential for serious injuries caused by heavy machinery, hazardous conditions, or unsafe work practices. If you’ve been injured in a construction accident, understanding your rights and the types of compensation available to you is essential. When it comes to construction accident damages in Atlanta, there are multiple paths to securing the compensation you deserve. While workers' compensation offers crucial benefits to help cover medical bills and lost wages, ...

Who is Liable for Your Construction Accident Injuries? Understanding Your Rights

Construction is an inherently dangerous line of work in Atlanta and throughout the state. Falling objects, slips and falls, and contact with objects or equipment are among the many contributing causes of construction accident injuries and deaths. The severity of these injuries can affect all aspects of a worker’s life. Knowing such accidents are typically preventable makes the issue of negligence and liability all the more important. This blog provides a better understanding of construc...

Heidelberg’s Renown in the Print Industry May Not Translate to World-Class Safety

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is a German engineering company best known for making printing presses, although they also make equipment for other stages of the printing process. The company is over 170 years old and quite famous within its niche, and many of its older products are now sought-after antiques. Unfortunately, printing has never been the safest of industries. Standards have certainly improved over time, but as in any industry, the most experienced companies won’t necessaril...

Workers Have a Right to Safety, No Matter Who Owns Riceboro’s Paper Mills

The paper and timber processing facilities on Interstate Paper Road in Riceboro, Georgia have operated under several names, and their true ownership remains in a state of flux today. Most know the paper plant as Interstate Paper, and the accompanying sawmill as RB Lumber. The whole complex also sometimes goes by Newport Timber, or St. George Timberland. All of these brands belong to a corporation called IRI Group, but the confusion doesn’t end there. In 2017, an English packaging compan...

Altium Packaging Employees Need Protection from Common Plastic Molding Accidents

Altium Packaging is an Atlanta-based manufacturer of custom commercial packaging, primarily molded plastic containers. In addition to their local plant on Duquesne Dr. SW, they have about 70 locations around the U.S and Canada. Working with plastic can be a dangerous job, and companies like Altium have a duty to make it as safe as possible. Doing so means understanding and addressing all the most common causes of plastic plant accidents. Entanglement Becoming entangled in machinery i...

When, Why, and How to Sue JE Dunn Construction for a Worksite Accident

If you’re suffering an injury or loss as the result of a construction accident, you’ve probably already received a lot of conflicting advice about your rights. You might have been told that the accident was something no one could have anticipated, or that catastrophic injuries are just an accepted risk of the construction industry. The truth is that most, if not all, construction accidents are preventable, and general contractors are responsible for making sure sites operate as safely as p...

How to Get Compensation After a Holder Construction Accident

Construction is one of the most dangerous professions in the world, and Holder Construction has a better track record than most of its peers when it comes to keeping workers on its projects safe. In fact, back in 2008, OSHA partnered directly with Holder to provide safety training for the construction industry in the Savannah area, calling Holder “an example to other companies.” Based on this reputation, one might expect Holder to do a good job of caring for anyone who does suffer an injur...

Brasfield & Gorrie Construction Site Accidents May Be Cause for Litigation

Brasfield & Gorrie is responsible for the safety of thousands of people working one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Even a small misjudgment or malfunction on a construction site can end or irrevocably alter lives in an instant, as the survivors of Brasfield & Gorrie accidents know all too well. When an accident happens, injured construction workers and their families deserve honest answers as to what happened, and compensation for their losses. Workers on Brasfield & ...

Who Can I Sue When a Crane Collapses?

If you’ve been affected by a crane collapse accident, you’re probably facing a huge amount of damage, and a lot of evasive messages from different companies, all of them telling you that someone else is responsible. It’s true that there’s usually more than one possible defendant for a crane collapse lawsuit. While this might seem confusing and overwhelming at first, it actually increases your odds of successfully collecting compensation from at least one source, once you have a good crane ...