Workplace Accidents

Personal Injury Law Firm: Practice Areas

Workers injured on a construction site often have legal recourse beyond filing a workers’ compensation claim. At the Shaked Law Firm, P.A., our construction accident lawyers are often contacted by workers’ compensation attorneys and requested to explore alternate avenues of liability. We handle serious industrial accidents resulting from unsafe job sites or equipment, including crane, bobcat, fork lift, and skid steer loader accidents; scaffolding collapses, trench collapses, structural failures, roof-related falls, and falling debris; electrocution; and boiler and propane fires and explosions.

Throughout our personal injury practice, we specialize in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. We represent workers and family members of workers who suffer serious broken bones, loss of limbs, disabling neck and back injuries, disabling head and brain injuries, and death. We seek damages from construction site property owners, general contractors and subcontractors, and manufacturers of industrial equipment and parts.

Our lawyers prepare every case for trial. We consult experts, we assemble documentation and evidence, and we interview witness. Committed to focused work on a small number of cases each year, we devote the time and resources necessary to bring the best results possible for each client.

Fighting for the employee and not the employer

Many people work in occupations where they are subjected to risk of serious injury from a variety of workplace dangers. When injuries occur on the job as a result of employer neglect or misconduct, or the wrongful conduct of others, workers can be faced with disability, unemployment, and lost wages. Workers’ compensation benefits are simply insufficient to fully compensate injured workers and his/her family for their losses, their pain and suffering, and their loss of quality of life. At the Shaked Law Firm our workplace injury lawyers are experienced in all aspects of litigating employment related injuries, and obtaining complete compensation for all damages incurred.

Job Safety and Protecting Workers’ Rights

On the job injuries are often the result of unsafe working conditions and/or the negligence of employers, supervisors or co-workers, and often time sub-contractors. When defective machinery and equipment is involved our expertise in products liability as well as design safety enables us to pursue negligent manufacturers of dangerous products. Workers can be injured at job sites and locations away from the usual workplace as well as on their employers’ premises. Frequently off-premises work-related injuries are caused by unsafe working conditions, including hidden or latent hazards and dangerous conditions, or the negligence of other contractors and businesses at a jobsite.

Our personal injury attorneys retain experts in a variety of related fields, including engineering, occupational safety and health, workplace safety, construction, industry practices, safety regulations, codes and standards.

Evidence of Negligence – We Immediately move to preserve it

We obtain evidence such as company records, contracts, employee handbooks, procedures manuals, and training and inspection records. We interview witnesses to uncover wrongdoing or neglect on the part of employers, contractors, their employees, and manufacturers whose defective products may have caused injury.

If you are unsure whether you have a case or how to initiate legal proceedings, contact the Florida workplace injury lawyers at the Shaked Law Firm. Our Miami office locations represents clients throughout Florida, including Broward County, Monroe County, Palm Beach County, Ft. Lauderdale, and all other Florida Counties, and in conjunction with local counsel licensed in other jurisdictions, throughout the United States

Work-Related Injuries and Employer Liability

The personal injury attorneys at Shaked Law Firm have represented injured workers and their families in a variety of workplace and jobsite related accidents:

• Defective machinery
• Negligent maintenance
• Fires and explosions
• Defective guarding
• Inadequate training
• Electrocution and electrical burns
• Failure to warn
• Dangerous conditions of property
• General contractor and subcontractor negligence
• Negligent maintenance
• Inadequate or defective instructions
• Inadequate or negligent supervision
• Equipment failure
• Unsafe working conditions
• OSHA violations

Contact the Shaked Law Firm Today

If you or a loved one has been seriously injured as a result of a workplace injury and would like your case evaluated for free, contact the Florida workplace injury lawyers at the Shaked Law Firm today. We provide free consultations and are available to meet with you even if you are unable to travel.

We believe that those responsible for construction-related injuries should be held accountable. If you have been injured on a construction or other industrial site, we invite you to contact our experienced personal injury attorneys today. We can help.