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Scaffolding at construction sites is about as common as paint on a house. Of the 2.3 million construction workers in America, almost two-thirds of them regularly climb up and down to access hard-to-reach spots.

No doubt, there are risks.

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 4,500 injuries and 50 fatalities involving scaffolding happen every year.

If you’re dealing with the aftermath of a scaffolding accident on a construction site, it’s time to protect your rights and pursue compensation to get your life going again.

Scaffolding has several risk factors. It must be assembled from transportable parts. It can rise several stories up. Workers should receive training to navigate it. While you’re up there, or working below, you’ve got to guard against fall injury, scaffolding collapse and falling objects.

When injury happens, Ohio has a workers’ compensation system for construction workers. If a third party is responsible for your accident—say the scaffolding manufacturer, a subcontractor who assembled it, or a worker for another company—you can consider a personal injury claim.

Knowing your rights after a scaffolding accident is challenging. You’ve been seriously hurt, making it difficult to think about legal issues and fighting to get compensation.

At Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB) in Ohio, we have scaffolding accident lawyers who put deep experience to work helping hardworking Ohioans.

We’ve secured over $500,000,000.00 in benefits, awards and settlements for injured people. 

If you live in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton or anywhere in Ohio, we want you to be the next to say, “Helping me, that’s HNB.”

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    How to Stay Safe from Scaffolding Collapse, Fall Injuries and More

    Scaffolding has been around for thousands of years—thankfully today it’s safer and stabler. Still, towering, vertical mazes of piping and planks are hazardous when safety guidelines aren’t followed.

    Because scaffolding allows workers to do their job at height, fall injury is the most common problem, followed by tools or materials dropped from above. In the most dramatic cases, an all-out scaffolding collapse puts everyone nearby in danger.

    These injuries can easily result from scaffolding accidents:

    Scaffolding must be properly assembled to maximize safety. Employees should be trained and guided through the assembly process.

    Once built, workers should use several safety techniques to prevent falls and other accidents. These include:

    • Fall arrest systems: Safety harnesses and tethers worn by workers doing their jobs 10 feet or more above the ground
    • Guardrails: Bars that prevent workers from falling off storied platforms
    • Lifelines: Ropes that anchor workers either vertically, such as when working on the side of a building, or horizontally, such as when working on roofs
    • Personal protection equipment (PPE) – Hardhats and proper footwear to walk and climb on scaffolding

    Scaffolding should also be regularly inspected, especially before work begins. Workers also need to be aware of load limits to avoid straining the scaffolding.

    When workplaces and property owners disregard safety, the risk of injury goes up.

    When you’re hurt, enlist a skilled scaffolding accident attorney to ensure you get the financial compensation you deserve and need to put this trauma behind you and look to a happier future.

    Workers’ compensation lawyers and personal injury lawyers from HNB Law have been handling injury cases for more than 40 years.

    We pride ourselves on getting what’s fair for everyday Ohioans who’ve been injured on the job.

    If you don’t know what to do after an injury, we can help.  We’ll look at your case free of charge.

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    Compensation for Scaffolding Accident Injuries

    When you fall from scaffolding or an object strikes you from above, you have rights and options.

    In most cases, your employer will have workers’ compensation insurance. This means you can file a claim with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) to pay for medical bills, recoup lost wages, get a permanent partial disability award, and get a final settlement of your BWC claim.

    But the BWC may not always award all the benefits you’re entitled to. A skilled scaffolding accident lawyer can help you be sure you get everything you deserve.

    You can sometimes get additional workers’ compensation benefits if your employer violated certain safety rules in maintaining their workplace.

    In other cases, someone else other than your employer may be at fault.

    If the scaffolding was defective or designed poorly, you can sue the manufacturer. If a subcontractor or a visitor to the jobsite was responsible for the accident, you can pursue a personal injury claim against them.

    You could also be a bystander hurt by collapsing scaffolding, falling objects or other hazards around scaffolding, and seek compensation through a personal injury premises liability claim.

    In those instances, you’ll have to prove negligence or recklessness. That will require collecting evidence, interviewing witnesses, and reconstructing the events that led to the accident.

    At HNB, we handle cases for injured construction workers and all kinds of Ohioans every day, and we fight to get you compensation that’s right and fair.

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