Case Archives: Construction Accidents
It was found that an employee of the subcontractor could not recover against the defendant because the plaintiff’s employer and the general contractor both provide worker’s compensation benefits under G. L. c. 152, and the employee failed to reserve his common law rights.
Settlement reached with a general contractor for worker’s death due to a fall in an unguarded area of residential home construction project.
Product liability settlement reached against the distributor of TAR Waller and the general contractor for injuries sustained by a construction foreman who fell when loop on wall formwork broke.
Slab of concrete fell from ceiling of a building under construction causing serious injury to plaintiff. The contractor, mechanical engineer, and architect denied responsibility for locating and securing the slab. By starting with the original building plans from the 1900’s and working forward to the current renovations, we were able to show the responsibility of each. Received settlements from all defendants.
The dismissal of the plaintiff’s case by the trial court was reversed, and a new trial was ordered. In the Appellate Court, Sugarman lawyers successfully argued that the plaintiff had shown sufficient evidence, and that a jury could reasonably infer that the accident was caused by the defendant’s negligence.
Settlement reached for the four young children of a construction worker who was killed when a massive steel craneway collapsed. The general contractor failed to develop an engineering or demolition plan for the dismantling of the craneway and made cuts that left a portion of it a free standing structure without securing it or warning any of the workers at the site of the danger posed by the free standing structure.
Settlement reached for an electrical apprentice working on the Big Dig. Worker suffered an abdominal crush injury and an esophageal tear because of a malfunction with the bucket controls.
Settlement for an excavation worker who attempted to place caution tape over low hanging electrical wires, to warn operators of other construction vehicles.
Settlement against contractor for physical and psychological injuries to a nineteen-year-old man following a gas explosion at a residential home.
Settlement received for multiple fractures to ironworker who fell while erecting the steel frame of a new Boston high-rise. General contractor failed to require 100% fall protection.