Construction accidents involving fork lifts, cranes, dump trucks, loaders, backhoes, and skidders are all too frequent. Construction equipment is often extremely heavy and very dangerous, even when safety precautions are taken. Injuries resulting from equipment accidents are often fatal, debilitating and life threatening. Many equipment and tool accidents are due to manufacturing defects, equipment malfunction, lack of instruction or warning, or inadequate supervision. Some recent fatal construction accidents include:
A fifty nine year old worker was struck by a fork lift on his birthday and died instantly.
An eighteen year old labor, working for less than a year, was struck in the head by a back hoe while trying to help,
A crane operator loses control of his equipment while roading it and it overturns killing him instantly.
A forklift operator was forced to carry too heavy of a load and it flipped the forklift killing the operator.
A Disney mechanic is run over and killed by a roller coaster car he was working on.
Workers are frequently run over by equipment and seriously injured or killed while in warehouses. Keep alert and pay attention at all times. Wear protective reflectant clothing. Make sure equipment operators know where you are at. Do no stand too close to a working piece of equipment. As an operator always wear your seat belt. Do not lift more than the recommended carrying weight and do not travel at excessive speed while carrying a load.
Have you or a loved one been involved in a bulldozer accident, crane accident, backhoe accident, skid steer loader accident, front-end loader accident, or fork lift accident? Have you been hurt by a piece of defective equipment on the job? You may deserve compensation. When this is the case you need the experience of a construction accident attorney to explain your rights. If you have been involved in an accident with construction equipment you need the California Construction Accident Attorneys, CCAA Attorneys, to explain your legal rights