Work Injury Lawyers | Equipment, Construction and Factory Accidents

Founded in 1958, The Beasley Firm is one of the preeminent injury law firms in the United States. Our trial lawyers have recovered more than $2 billion in compensation for injured children, patients, and workers through hundreds of multi-million-dollar settlements and jury verdicts.

We take severe damages cases and see them all the way through — from investigation, to filing, pleadings, discovery and jury trial. In 2009, for example, our lawyers negotiated a $16.25 million mid-trial settlement for a construction worker who lost both his legs in a workplace accident after his employer sent him to a landfill without any safety training.

We know how to win cases, but our law firm is about more than just winning. In 1999, the firm’s founder, James E. Beasley, Sr., donated $20 million to his alma mater, Temple Law School, to refurbish the facilities, to establish several professorial chairs, and to fund scholarships for highly qualified but economically disadvantaged students. In recognition, the school changed its name to the Beasley School of Law.

Every year over 1% of workers are injured so severely on the job they need to take time off to recuperate. In some occupations — like laborers, freight movers, police officers, nursing aides, truck drivers (tractor-trailer and delivery), and workers at industrial workplaces and construction sites — 5% of workers are severely injured. Every year, over 4,500 workers die in workplace accidents, one-third in transportation and highway accidents,  one-fifth as a result of workplace violence, one-sixth in equipment or machinery collisions, and one-sixth in falls. (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Workers compensation covers many of these claims, but workers comp is an adversarial process, where the difference between a lawyer shuffling paper and a zealous advocate can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars. Workers comp, too, only applies to the employer, and doesn’t absolve other companies in the area, like subcontractors and heavy machinery and crane manufacturers, from their duties to keep workers safe. Our workplace injury lawyers thoroughly investigate every case to review, for example, any history of accidents, the presence of OSHA violations, and whether appropriate safety procedures were created and followed to ensure every party responsible for our client’s injuries is held fully responsible either under workers compensation laws or under tort law claims like negligence, recklessness, and punitive damages.

For a free, confidential consultation with the work injury lawyers at The Beasley Firm, use the contact form to the right or call my office at (215) 931-2634.

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