Oklahoma City Blog: Personal Injury

Construction sites are dangerous places.  Enormous equipment, heavy supplies and moving parts everywhere create risk for anyone who ventures onto such a site.  Unfortunately, this dangerous environment leads to Oklahoma construction site accidents.  On a national scale, as many as five percent of all construction workers miss work at least once per year because of injuries suffered at a construction site.  When this situation arises, one of the questions that seems to follow regards which parties are liable.  With the help of an experienced Oklahoma City construction site accident lawyer, you can obtain a specific answer if you've been injured.  Meantime, below you'll find a few possibilities in terms of liable parties.

 

Oklahoma Construction Site Accident Liability - The General Contractor

Many construction workers and others are injured at construction sites because of a dangerous condition that exists that has not been removed, warned about properly or minimized.  Specific examples of these dangerous conditions are nearly limitless in number, but basically, if something exists at a construction site that will likely lead to injury and it is not properly and promptly handled, the general contractor that oversees the ongoing project could be liable for injuries someone suffers.  An example of such a situation is failing to place a fence around a pit that sits on a construction site and someone falls into it because they didn't see it.

 

Oklahoma Construction Site Accident Liability - Third Parties

Third party liability is also a common occurrence in Oklahoma construction site accidents.  These situations involve an injury that occurs because of the negligence of someone who is not necessarily working on the site.  One example of such a situation could be where a construction worker is injured because he was hit while working by a delivery truck that did not exercise a proper degree of caution when proceeding onto the construction site.  These situations cannot be foreseen by the general contractor, and therefore liability should fall on the parties responsible for these injuries.

Overall, determining the potentially liable parties in an Oklahoma construction site accident largely depends on the facts of the situation, and a legal claim could involve both wokers' compensation and personal injury law.  If you or someone you love has been harmed on a construction site, contact the Oklahoma City construction site accident lawyers at Atkins & Markoff today to schedule a free initial consultation.

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