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The back injury situation, with regard to workplace injuries, is a complicated one. First of all, if they suffer a back injury while they are working for their employer and it is no one else’s fault, it is a workers compensation case. Now on the other hand, if you hurt your back working at a power plant, a chemical plant or an industrial facility while working for your employer, you may have a different type of lawsuit. It’s important that you call early, tell us what happened, who you were working for and see if we can’t figure out a way to help. A lot of times people hurt their backs in a situation where they are either being required to lift too much or lift something in a confined space where they can’t possibly do it safely. Other times it can be a falling situation where the worker is unaware. A young West Virginia boy actually fell through the floor of an industrial facility in Alabama because the workers on the night shift didn’t cover up a hole in the floor. The kid broke his back. One part of back injuries is an injury to the spinal cord. Your […]

I can’t tell you how many different ways people manage to get brain injuries in the workplace. There are literally thousands of different ways. Falling objects, equipment that someone else is operating where they run into an employee because they are operating the equipment improperly or there’s a blind side where they don’t see them. There are also tripping hazards where people fall and hit their head. You can also have very difficult work environment where people are in a confined space and they strike their head on an object. You may even be in a wearing a hard hat but get whacked on the noggin good enough to suffer a brain injury. There are also horrible head-crushing injuries where a human beings skull is actually crushed causing a brain injury. Those are very serious cases, which require a very experienced lawyer with well-qualified experts. It’s important to talk about the range of brain injuries. Some brain injuries can actually be photographed, not with a camera but with an x-ray or CAT scan. We also have devices now known as MRI, which are magnetic resonance imaging machines, and we also have something called PET Scanners. They can demonstrate where parts

The most important question to the worker is, “Is the lawsuit going to be against your employer? Or is it going to be against a third party, not your employer, because that’s who hurt you?” For instance, if you go to a work site and you are told, “We want you to paint this room.” But the person who brought you there, the premises owner doesn’t tell you, “Oh, and by the way, that’s a high-voltage room.” They can be sued for straight negligence. Likewise, if you got to a facility to do your job, and you’re given a defective piece of equipment, and you are told, “You can use this piece of equipment to do this,” and the equipment is defective, that’s a straight negligence lawsuit that you can file against the person who gave you the defective equipment. I had a very interesting case once where a welder was in a chemical plant, and he got what’s called a welding ticket, which is essentially a certification from the company who owned the chemical plant that the vessel he was going to weld on had been cleaned and did not have any dangerous gases. And so he put his