Sacramento Construction Site Accident Lawyers
Machinery Accident Injury Attorneys in Northern California

Founded in 1993, Demas & Rosenthal is the law firm that believes in getting to know each and every client on a personal level to successfully represent Northern California accident and injury victims. Sacramento attorneys, John Demas and David Rosenthal, started their firm with the vision of achieving justice and obtaining maximum results for serious injury victims. With extensive experience in all types of serious personal injury and wrongful death cases, Demas & Rosenthal will not quit until your case is settled.

Industrial accidents are the third leading cause of injury and death in the workplace. Recent statistics have shown that mechanical equipment is involved in 80% of these fatalities.

Here are some of the alarming facts regarding workplace injury and death:

• From 1980 to 1995, over 93,000 workers in the U.S. died as a result of trauma suffered on the job.
• An average of 16 workers died each day in workplace related accidents from 1980 to 1995.
• In 2000, the number of traumatic injuries suffered in the workplace contributed to approximately 5,600 workplace deaths.
• 5.2 million injuries and illnesses were reported in private industry workplaces during 2001.

Industrial injuries are often caused by faulty equipment or by machinery that is unguarded or inadequately guarded. Many of the accidents occur during cleaning or maintenance work when simple precautions have not been taken to ensure the safety of the workers or when effective guarding of the machinery has not been given priority.

Catastrophic injury and death occurs every day to workers even though many state and federal regulations, as well as industry standards, require corporations, their executives, managers and plant supervisors to implement a wide variety of safety measures.

In many cases, injured workers have no recourse against their negligent employers. Although workers' compensation aids employees while injured on the job, it is usually not sufficient to fully compensate injured workers for all damages sustained as a result of their work-related accident.

In order to receive reasonable compensation for their injuries workers must commence third-party lawsuits against parties other than their employer. Equipment manufacturers may be held responsible when a machinery accident occurs. In addition to workers' compensation benefits, additional damages that can be recovered in third-party lawsuits include pain and suffering, additional wage loss benefits, additional medical benefits and loss of consortium.

Industrial machinery is comprised of moving parts that include rotating members, reciprocating arms, moving belts, meshing gears, cutting teeth and many parts that impact or shear. Although these hazardous mechanical motions and actions are present in nearly all machines, many workers have not been adequately protected from the dangers they present. Contact with any moving machine parts may be extremely hazardous to workers and can result in catastrophic injuries including crushed limbs, amputations, burns, electrocutions, traumatic head injuries, spinal injuries and blindness.

You need the representation of aggressive, experienced trial attorneys to ensure you are fairly compensated for your suffering. The Law Offices of Demas and Rosenthal are ready to take on your machinery accident case and will not quit until you get the settlement you deserve.