Airport Construction Accident Injures Five
Airport construction workers across the Southwest from Arizona to Nevada, California or Colorado all face the unfortunate prospect of dealing with the failure of large safety installations, resulting in significant workplace danger. Arizona construction accident lawyers and those in adjacent states work to investigate the serious lack of safeguards in high-traffic construction areas such as new airport building sites, where the failure to implement reasonable processes can lead to disastrous situations.
As an example of what can go wrong, a Las Vegas Sun article refers to a June 23 incident in which five steelworkers were injured. According to the story, the accident occurred at the $2.4-billion Terminal 3 Project at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. The workers were constructing a rebar cage that was to be a structural component of a subterranean roadway bridge in front of the new terminal. The structure fell, trapping five workers inside for over 30 minutes. Other workers, with the assistance of a local fire crew, lifted the cage with a crane and cut the rebar, eventually extricating the workers. One worker sustained a punctured lung and a broken hip; others suffered less extensive injuries.
The failure of this structural component illustrates the care needed to construct metal frames to hold elements of infrastructure in place. In this case, the rebar cage was 6 feet in diameter and approximately 70 feet long. A completed cage of this type typically weighs 30,000 lbs. When industrial safeguards fail, it’s up to investigators and, often times, construction accident lawyers, to identify who is responsible. Workers injured in these kinds of incidents in Arizona routinely seek out skilled Arizona construction accident lawyers who help with fact-finding, case law precedent and other research to recover the high costs of injury, including medical bills and lost wages so that families can focus on helping an injured worker to recover from an airport construction accident.
When these unfortunate incidents occur in the state of Arizona, accident victims and their families can seek help to obtain proper compensation for the tremendous financial hardship suffered during a recovery period. Too often, families have to fight for their dues in accident circumstances where no “automatic” process exists to compensate them or where the workers compensation is not adequate.
As a leading firm of Arizona construction accident lawyers, Breyer Law has helped many Arizona families get what they need to cope with medical expenses, cost of medication, hospitalization and physical rehabilitation and all of the other results of an accident caused by construction accidents. If you or someone you love is killed or injured in a Phoenix construction accident, let us help. Call Breyer Law Offices, P.C. at 602-978-6400.
