Construction Accident Injury Claims in Cedar Crest, NM

Plenty of homes off NM 14 sit on a slope, so the uphill side is one story and the downhill side is three. That makes for tall decks, long ladders and scaffolds set on uneven, rocky ground. A ladder fall injury lawyer hears about ladders that slid on pine needles; a fall from scaffolding lawyer hears about scaffold legs on blocks because the hillside was not level.

New Mexico workers' comp is no-fault, so how the ladder was set up does not decide your benefits. Many construction injury claims Cedar Crest framers and roofers file involve broken wrists, shoulders and backs, which insurers like to call pre-existing. Our page on the workers' comp cases we handle lays out the benefits that should follow.

There is no city sewer up here, so most new builds need a septic system, a well and a driveway cut into the hillside. That is excavator, skid steer and dump truck work on grades that punish one bad move. A heavy equipment accident lawyer handles tip-overs and crush injuries; a crane accident lawyer handles the truss and beam lifts that happen on tight, sloped lots.

Those injuries tend to be serious, and serious injuries draw the most pushback from adjusters. Construction injury claims Cedar Crest operators bring us often need a careful record of every restriction the doctor gives. Some of the same machine injuries come up in manufacturing injury claims for Cedar Crest residents.

Power in the East Mountains often runs overhead through the trees, and a boom, a ladder or a length of gutter can find a line fast. An electrocution injury lawyer looks for the long-tail symptoms, nerve pain, heart rhythm trouble and memory problems, that adjusters say are unrelated.

Winter adds its own hazard. Shaded north-facing decks and driveways stay icy long after the valley thaws, and slip-and-fall injuries on a job site are work injuries. Our Cedar Crest work injury attorney page covers those claims if your injury was not strictly construction.

Mountain builds are often run by a small general contractor with a handful of subs, and some of those subs are one or two people. If you get hurt working for one, a subcontractor workers comp claim may still reach the general contractor's policy. New Mexico requires construction employers to carry comp even with one employee, and the Uninsured Employers' Fund can step in when nobody had coverage.

What about injured on a construction site what to do in that mess? Report it, get treated and write down who hired you. A construction worker injury lawyer can untangle the rest. Some construction injury claims Cedar Crest helpers file also involve warehouse or supply yard work, covered on our Cedar Crest warehouse injury claims page, and less common jobs are covered under other work injury claims.