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Do You Need to Rebuild Financially after a Construction Injury?

There’s a reason heavy equipment is painted caution-tape yellow: they’re big machines, and they’re dangerous.

It takes specialized training to operate skid steers, backhoes, cranes, bulldozers and the like. That makes a heavy equipment operator a good-paying job that can give you and your family stability and a fulfilling lifestyle.

But working with these machines, what happens when you get hurt? Avenues are available for you to pursue compensation to protect the life you’ve built.

You need everyone at your job site to act safely and all the equipment to be in good condition, but that isn’t always the case.

People make mistakes. Equipment breaks. In the worst cases, someone gets hurt or even killed.

When you’re hurt on the job, Ohio has workers’ compensation to help you cover medical bills, lost wages, a permanent partial disability award, a settlement, or some other workers’ comp benefit.

When your injury is the result of a third party’s negligence or recklessness, or equipment failure because of bad manufacturing, you have the option of a personal injury claim to get payment to cover your losses.

At Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB), our Ohio workers’ compensation and personal injury lawyers pride themselves fighting for the rights of injured people.

In fact, we’ve won more than $500,000,000.00 in benefits, awards and settlements for injured Ohioans.

We know the ins and outs of the workers’ comp system, personal injury law, safety regulations, manufacturing standards and proper ways to operate heavy machinery.

If you live in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton or anywhere in Ohio, we can bear the load of your heavy equipment accident case, so you can say, “Helping me, that’s HNB.”

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    Workers’ Compensation for a Heavy Equipment Accident

    We expect our employers to make our workspace safe. Most employers do. They follow guidelines and procedures, as well as safety precautions laid out by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA).

    But not always.

    By sheer bulk and power, heavy machinery adds extra risk to a job site. And when combined with unsafe conditions and reckless actions, accidents, major injuries and fatalities can happen. Serious injuries include:

    • Amputation
    • Electrocution
    • Being pinned by moving vehicles
    • Injuries from flying debris 
    • Injuries from dropped loads

    Ohio has a workers’ compensation system for injured employees. You don’t have to prove your employer was reckless or negligent to win benefits when you’re hurt operating heavy equipment.

    After your accident, you should file a claim with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). This opens the door to benefits to stabilize your life as you recover. They include:

    Workers’ compensation generally limits the award you can receive to amounts matching a portion of your pay before you were hurt.

    But if your employer failed to follow safety requirements, such as not keeping equipment maintained or ignoring workers who identify jobsite hazards, then under Ohio law you can file a claim for additional payment because your employer violated a safety rule.

    At HNB Law, our team of construction injury and heavy equipment accident lawyers has more than 40 years of experience helping clients successfully collect benefits through workers’ compensation claims.

    We know how the BWC works, how to handle non-cooperative employers, and how to fight for the maximum compensation for you.

    Talk to us. We’ll take an introductory look at your case for free.

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    Filing a Personal Injury Claim After a Heavy Equipment Accident

    While Ohio’s workers’ compensation system shields employers from employee lawsuits over on-the-job injuries, people other than your employer who were involved in your injury can be legally responsible in a personal injury claim.

    If the heavy machinery involved in the accident was defective, you could pursue the manufacturer for economic damages, pain and suffering, and other impacts of your injury.

    If the driver of the vehicle worked for a subcontractor, that company could be liable for their reckless operation of the heavy equipment.

    The same is true if you were driving the skid steer, backhoe, trencher or any other piece of heavy equipment, and the subcontractor’s employee acted negligently on the job site and led to you getting hurt.

    Filing personal injury claims is nuanced and complicated. You must prove negligence or reckless endangerment.

    Ohio is a “comparative negligence” state in personal injury law, meaning both parties involved may shoulder some of the blame. The key is to prove that the third party is more than 50 percent responsible for your injury.

    At HNB, our heavy equipment accident and construction injury lawyers know how to build the strongest case for you to win compensation to recover from this hardship and rebuild your life.

    Let’s get to work getting you back on your feet.

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