Construction Accidents

If you work on a construction site, your hard hat is one of your more important pieces of personal protective gear. After all, when you wear it properly, the right hard hat may considerably decrease your chances of sustaining a traumatic brain injury at work.  ...

As a construction worker, your various job sites present numerous opportunities for you to become seriously injured. From heavy equipment to faulty power tools to roofs and ladders and various other hazards, yours is a dangerous job.  In fact, construction workers...

Construction workers in Georgia and across the country are at greatest risk of receiving a brain injury while on-the-job. Is it not uncommon for workers on the job site to get hit by a falling object, fall off a ladder or scaffolding or trip over objects and hit...

As a construction worker, you face a high risk of electrocution even if your chosen trade is not that of an electrician. Unfortunately, all construction workers face this risk because your job requires you to work with and around numerous kinds of electrical equipment...

As we write this, temperatures in Jonesboro are predicted to reach the upper 90s over the next week or so. The heat serves as a reminder of recent findings by the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR). The organization’s research shows that construction...

It is not something people typically think about on their way to their Jonesboro job in the morning or as they drive home in the evening. Statistics about workplace injuries are often more interesting after a person has sustained an injury while on the job or has been...

A Georgia construction company that does greenhouse repair and maintenance apparently inaccurately filled out an application for a workers’ compensation insurance policy. The insurance agent indicated on the new policy that the company only did work here in...

As regular readers of our Jonesboro Workers' Compensation Law Blog know, construction is one of the most dangerous lines of work in the nation. Construction worker injuries can be caused by falls from heights, collapsed scaffolding, electrical shocks, trench...

It is the time of year when you are most likely to see road crews working to repair Jonesboro streets and the highways and interstates in our area. There are a number of safety concerns for those road construction workers, including the risks of being injured by the...

It is critical for construction companies to take proper measures to protect their workers from safety hazards. This includes electrical dangers. Electric shocks can seriously injure workers. There are various things at construction sites that have the potential to...