If you are injured in a Construction Accident, whether a particular participant in the construction process, such as the architect, may be liable for the injury you suffered depends on the legal duty that person owed you. Employers are liable for injuries suffered by construction workers working on the employer’s construction site. Bystanders injured in construction accidents may recover from the person or persons who are at fault. However, you may have been injured by another employer at the same work site, or by another participant in the construction process such as an architect or engineer. In such cases, you may be able to sue the other parties responsible for the injuries, without being limited by the workers compensation statute. Whether a particular participant in the construction process may be liable for harm done to you depends on the legal duty that person owed to you. Usually, those duties are determined by the contracts among the various parties. For example, an architect is usually not responsible for workplace safety, so the employee of a subcontractor cannot hold the architect responsible for injuries resulting from an unsafe job site. However, if the architect has agreed to be responsible for workplace safety, the architect may be liable. Even if a construction project participant is not liable to workers, either because they aren’t employees or because there is no contractual duty to them, he may still be liable if he knows of an actual dangerous condition and fails to give proper warning of the danger. Special rules usually apply as well to especially dangerous activities involved in a construction project, such as working with explosives or dangerous volatile substances. If you’ve been hurt in a construction accident, it’s a good idea to see a lawyer right away.

• Electrocution
• Falls
• Burn accidents
• Chemical spills
• Structure collapse
• Vehicle accidents
• Exposure to chemicals
• Falling objects
• Equipment-related accidents
• Backovers and crushed-betweens
• Fires and explosions
• Trench collapses
• Repetitive motion accidents
• Heat stroke and overexertion
• Respiratory diseases