By Peter DePaolis
Attorney
Attorney
Many injuries can occur on construction sites. Organizations like OSHA and rules and regulations like in the D.C Industrial Safety Act are put in place to protect workers. Still, deadlines and an employers desire to get a job done quickly can lead to injuries. Those injuries in turn can lead to an employee filing a workers comp case. Attorney David Schloss has 30 years of experience representing members of various labor unions. Contact him for questions on your on the job injuries.
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One of the typical scenarios that I see in my practice are injuries that occur on construction sites. On the one hand there are lots of safety rules and regulations, in particular OSHA and the D.C Industrial Safety Act, that are designed to protect workers on construction sites. And while those laws are hopefully being abided by, by employers, there’s a competing interest that employers have, and that’s to get the job done as quickly as possible. Most construction projects, as many of you know, are behind schedule, and so there’s always a rush, that we’ve seen, to catch up to the schedule. What that rush causes is carelessness. Unfortunately, that carelessness leads to on-the-job injury. And those on-the-job injuries, particularly on a construction site, often lead to both a workers’ compensation case, and a third-party construction negligence case. For more information please go to our website Koonz.com.