Hurt on construction site, who can I Sue?
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Well in New York State you have actually a lot of opportunities to bring a case when you’re injured on a construction site. There are special statutes in New York State that protect construction workers specific safety statutes, so if you work here on a construction site, you have the right to bring the case against the owner of the construction site and if there was a general contract, your potentially construction manager, you have the right to bring the case against them and special thing about construction accident is depending how your accident happen.
The special protection under the statutes, there’s two specific sections on the labor law, one is labor law 240 and one is 241. If you fallen from a height, you have incredible protection under the law or you might be able to win your case very simply and easily. Most construction accidents involved tripped or slipped and fall accident and there were actually safety regulations concerning making sure you have to keep construction sites clean from tripping or slipping assets so if you have either those types of accidents you’ll gonna have a special protection on the law and you may just need to prove a violation of the statute or the regulations to bring a case, you won’t even have to necessarily prove negligence.
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