Florida Bridge Collapse Leaves Six Dead
A newly-erected 174-foot-long section of a pedestrian bridge recently collapsed onto a six-lane highway in a suburb of Miami, FL, leaving six dead and at least nine injured. Investigations into [...]
Scaffold Accident on Construction Site Settled for More Than $4,318,000.00
Goldberg Weisman Cairo partner Michael D. Fisher and attorney Bennett J. Baker have settled a lawsuit on behalf of a carpenter who was injured in a scaffold accident on a construction site for a [...]
GWC Obtained $1.725 Million for Carpenter Injured by Work Site Negligence
Goldberg Weisman Cairo partner Michael D. Fisher and attorney Michael W. Kopsick have obtained a $1,725,000.00 settlement for their client, a union carpenter, who suffered extreme injuries during [...]
GWC Recovers for Severely Injured Union Carpenter
GWC partner Michael D. Fisher has procured a $650,000.00 settlement for his client, a union carpenter, who tore the labrum of his left shoulder during the construction of a roof deck. GWC sued [...]
Construction Workers Are Entitled to a Safe Workplace
Although construction sites are a naturally dangerous place to work, employers are legally obligated to provide construction workers with reasonably safe worksites. Certain construction worker [...]
Illinois Contractor Cited by OSHA for Seventh Time
A Joliet construction contractor, P.T. Ferro, was recently cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing employees to unsafe trench working conditions. This is [...]
Residents’ Safety Concerns Grow Following 2nd Construction Site Accident
Two West Loop construction sites have neighboring residents concerned for their safety. On Saturday, Aug. 6, two separate car accidents occurred around the sites at the corner of Washington [...]
Roofing Contractor Fined by OSHA for Safety Violations
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a Norridge roofing contractor and issued a fine of $115,000 for exposing workers to fall hazards on two Chicago area jobsites within [...]
Collapsed Wall Kills One, Injures Another at Ford Plant
A contract worker was killed and another worker was critically injured Saturday when a wall collapsed at Ford Motor Company’s Chicago Assembly Plant located on the Far South Side of the [...]
GWC Team Settles Construction Accident Claim
On Aug. 26, 2009, a construction superintendent was surveying an interstitial ceiling space in a high-rise building for the purpose of designing a mechanical system to be retrofit into the [...]
