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Arizona
Construction Accident Lawyers
Arizona construction accident lawyers who
represent people who have suffered a personal
injury or death by negligence, medical malpractice
or a defective product. We also represent people
treated unfairly by insurance companies resulting
in bad faith, breach of contract, and uninsured
motorist claims.
Construction
accidents injure and kill hundreds of thousands
of people every year. Construction is considered
one of the three most dangerous occupations in
the U.S., with one in ten construction workers
being involved in a construction accident. A
more specialized area of law, personal injury
involving construction accidents have increased
in recent years due to the failure of construction
companies to adhere to safety rules that would
prevent construction accidents from occurring
at such a high rate.
A construction
accident can be the result of many different factors,
involving dangerous construction equipments lacking
proper safety devices, cave-ins, falls due to
a barricade failure, collapsing structure, inadequate
warning of dangerous conditions, and injuries
due to the activities of another contractor.
All these types of construction accidents expose
construction workers to a wide variety of hazards.
The high number of hazards is why construction
workers face the greatest risk of work- related
injury or fatality than any other U.S. employee
thus enduring high numbers of construction accidents.
Construction
accidents most often affect lower back and shoulder
by lifting, knees, hips, and shoulders by awkward
postures, wrists through repetitive motions, and
fingers and wrists due to hand tools. OSHA found
that hazards contributing to construction accidents
are the large amount of noise, lead and asbestos
exposure, solvents, hazardous wastes, and heat
and cold stressors. All these hazards contribute
to construction accidents that affect the organs
and vital systems.
A personal
injury construction accident can be attributed
to owners, insurance companies, architects, or
equipment manufacturers. Construction accident
attorney exist to investigate the circumstances
that surrounded the injury to determine if safety
standards were not applied or broken and resulted
in a construction accident. A construction accident
claim can arise if a contractor conducts the business
in negligent or dangerous ways, a property owner
fails to warn of dangerous conditions on the property,
or a contractor is using equipment that is dangerous
or defective and it leads to a construction accident.
Construction accident law is very specialized
but will help ensure that the injured party received
the compensation they are qualified for.
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