Falls & Crush Injuries.

Falls from height and being caught between heavy objects are among the most common ways a job site kills or maims. They are also among the most preventable.

Fall protection is not optional on a work site. Guardrails, harnesses, covers, and proper scaffolding are required precisely because a fall of even a few feet can end a career or a life. Crush and caught-between injuries, a worker pinned by equipment, a collapsing trench, an unsecured load, follow the same pattern: a known hazard that a safety rule was written to control, left uncontrolled. When the protection that should have been there was missing, the injury that follows is not an accident so much as a consequence.

These cases are built from the safety rules and the site's own records: the fall-protection plan, equipment inspections, the general contractor's safety oversight, and any citations issued afterward. Often the company responsible for site safety is not the injured worker's direct employer, which opens a claim against the party that actually controlled the hazard.