Construction Injuries: Amputation

Construction sites are common workplaces for employee injuries. New York construction accidents involving the loss of a limb are generally the result of one of the following, preventable situations:

• Unsafe construction sites/working conditions
• Untrained or careless employees who accidentally injure another person
• Fork lift accidents, or general loading/unloading type accidents
• Construction machinery collisions
• Construction machinery that tip over
• Electrical shock
• Construction site explosions

What is Amputation?

Amputation involves surgery to remove all or part of a limb that is no longer useful, or that threatens the individual's health or causes pain. Most amputation construction injuries involve legs, arms, feet, fingers or toes.

What to Do if You Experience an Amputation Construction Injury

Construction injuries involving amputation can give the victim both short and long term financial problems as it may affect their ability to return to work and earn a living. As with all types of construction injuries, you have legal rights and may be eligible for financial and medical benefits for the loss of use or partial loss of use of a limb; or a permanent disability through workers' compensation.

Speak with experienced New York construction accident lawyers and personal injury lawyers, Lever & Stolzenberg, about your amputation injury to see whether it qualifies for workers' compensation and/or pain and suffering under personal injury law. Contact us online or call (877)288-9191.




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