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Construction Equipment Accidents

Injured While Operating Construction Equipment?

Construction equipment is usually big, heavy and difficult to operate safely. Designers and manufacturers are required by law to ensure workers using their products are kept reasonably safe from danger. Construction employers share responsibility to ensure proper training and safety.

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If you have suffered an injury while working on a job site with construction equipment, you may be entitled to seek money damages above and beyond workers' compensation benefits. THE KAPLAN/BOND GROUP is a leading personal injury trial law firm that represents injured construction workers in communities throughout Massachusetts. Contact us today.

Lawyers Who Take Effective Action When Workers Are Hurt

Proper training of personnel and proper maintenance of the equipment and tools involved can help prevent construction accidents. When the training is shirked, the equipment is defective or when the worksite is unsafe, construction sites become dangerous places. As trial lawyers with more than a century of combined legal experience, we know that the hazards involved are real. We also know how to navigate the complex laws, regulations, standards and contracts towards a path to recovery for the workers upon whom we depend so much.

We represent construction workers injured or killed in fatal accidents such as:

In addition, we represent workers injured in other kinds of construction site accidents, including:

Contact us to discuss your specific construction equipment accident case with one of our trial attorneys. We offer a complimentary consultation to explain the law and help you decide what to do next. Our offices are located in Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts.

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Vessel owner failed to make a written fishing agreement with the plaintiff seamen prior to leaving port as the law requires. Without a written agreement, under the current law, the seamen were entitled to the highest rate of pay at the port. Because the seamen deckhands were paid less than the full share received by other deckhands on the vessel, The Kaplan/Bond Group was able to obtain $32,500.

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