FERRARA LAW OFFICES, P.C.


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Industrial Workplace Injuries
    When a worker is injured in an industrial setting of employment, he or she more than likely has a workers compensation claim. However, under Pennsylvania’s workers compensation laws, a workers compensation claim does not provide benefits for pain, suffering, loss of life’s pleasures, the true value of the economic loss or the affect of the injury on the non-injured spouse.  Rather, workers compensation claims only pay a percentage of the wages the employee received up to a certain point. 

    With any industrial workplace injury, a trial lawyer must always evaluate whether there is a potential  third party case which would open the door for recoveries otherwise barred by the Pennsylvania Workers Compensation Statute.  For example,  was the injury caused by a defective piece of equipment such as a ladder, crane, hoist, conveyor, tractor, forklift, machine, product defect or the negligence of another. 

    Severe injuries in an industrial workplace are devastating and usually involve catastrophic injuries.  Since industrial workplaces infrequently have no light or moderate duty work available, a serious injury can mean a loss of career. Since tradesmen are usually well paid and have excellent benefits, it's almost impossible for the injured worker to find a comparable job. Indeed, many households end up in divorce over this tragedy because of the financial stress.

    Ferrara Law offices, P.C. has represented a variety of different tradesman who were injured in industrial workplace settings.  The commitment to our clients is a refusal-to-lose mantra with a work ethic to achieve the best possible results. 

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