Preventing Dump Truck Accidents
Dump truck drivers play a crucial role in construction and many industries. However, dump truck accidents are often devastating, and sometimes fatal.
Construction Workers Deserve Safe Job Sites
Construction workers routinely face significant dangers on the job. Because the worksites are so dangerous, New York State has provided minimum safety requirements that property owners, general contractors, subcontractors and others must comply with to prevent or reduce unnecessary injuries.
John Feroleto Teaches on Construction Site Accidents.
September 29, John Feroleto instructed a large crowd of Western New York attorneys on the topic of construction site accidents. John was asked by the New York State Trial Lawyers Association to present at Decisions 2016, which is consistently ranked among the best continuing legal education in New York State.
A Call to Safeguard Workers
The Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health, “WNYCOSH”, an independent not-for-profit safety group issued a report January 25, 2016, providing that the Scaffold Law, Labor Law Section 240 is essential to protect construction workers. As a son of a construction worker, I feel strongly that work sites should be safe. As a personal injury attorney, who has represented many construction workers, I have seen the devastation unsafe work sites can cause.
Injured Workers Forced into Poverty While Corporate Profits Boom
Workers Compensation assures that when an employee is injured on the job, their employer is responsible for paying medical bills and enough wages to the injured worker to help them get by financially through their recovery. In exchange, the injured worker can not sue their employer for injuries.
Dangerous Grounds: Corporations avoinding overdue fines and avoiding work place safety
Last night NPR ran a story about coal mine safety violations and the workers who are injured or killed because of safety violations. While we do not see any coal mine cases here in Buffalo, NY, as personal injury attorneys we all too often do see corporations taking short cuts which end up injuring people. We see this often in dangerous product cases, where a corporation puts a dangerous product on the shelf for sale and it ends up injuring or killing people. Safety regulations are overlooked, data is manipulated, and consumers are lied to.
John Feroleto to discuss New York Labor Law
John Feroleto, Buffalo, NY trial attorney, was asked to present at the Decisions Seminar for the New York State Trial Lawyers Association being held at Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York, tomorrow October 23, 2014. He will be discussing the most recent court decisions concerning liability under New York Labor Law for work related injuries such as injuries at construction and demolition sites. John has fought for injured workers for more than 30 years.