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Construction site injuries can be catastrophic.  Often, falls from height are involved.  The combination of the blunt force trauma and the deceleration injuries can lead to wrongful death or permanent injury.  Those injuries may include brain injury, spinal cord injuries including paraplegia and quadriplegia, broken bones back injury, and amputation.  The worker may no longer be able to work.  The construction injury leading to future lost wages in addition to the permanent impairment.  Construction work can be the most dangerous profession.  The problem is that workers may not recognize the danger associated with a particular activity and be injured before they are even aware that they are in danger.  This is especially true for those workers who have little experience or training.

construction site It is for these reasons that significant jobsite safety rules and regulations apply to construction sites.  The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issues rules and regulations which must be followed on any job site.  These rules and regulations exist because what might seem like an obviously dangerous situation (especially after the injury has occurred) are not obvious at all.  OSHA rules and regulations exist to prevent the worker from being exposed to a dangerous situation and thus reduce the potential for those injuries.  You can access OSHA rules and regulations at www.OSHA.gov.   OSHA is administered by the United States Department of Labor.   The standards issued by OSHA can be located at 29 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Section 1926 and following.  These standards are published on the web at the OSHA website.

Why are these standards so vital?  Why is it wrong when insurance companies want to eliminate safety standards in order to, as they wrongly claim, make us more competitive?  The reason is that 5,214 workers died on the job in 2008.

It is easy to think in the abstract that we should eliminate safety rules to gain a competitive advantage, but that is wrong thinking.  It is wrong for many reasons.  The words of Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor sum up the most important reason well: "With every one of these fatalities, the lives of a worker’s family members were shattered and forever changed. We can’t forget that fact."  This loss represents hundreds of thousands of lost productive hours.  When the worker is injured, we have lost productivity, but we also have medical expense, lost wages from which taxes are paid,lost purchasing power to energize the economy, and in many instances welfare costs to support the worker and their families which the worker cannot support.

If you, or a loved one, have been injured in a construction accident, call John P. Young, toll free, at 1-888-639-5161 or on the web at john@youngandyoungin.com for a personal, confidential and free of charge consultation.  Young and young has been continuously representing Hoosiers injured in construction accidents since 1954.  Put our experience to work for your families well being.

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