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Did you know that if you were injured on the job site and you brought a worker’s comp
claim that there may still be other people or companies involved in your job site that
you’re entitled to be in compensation from? Hi. My name is Jonathan Macri and I’m an
attorney with Parker Waichman. And I’m here to talk to you today a little bit about a
topic that a lot of folks are a little bit unclear on, and it has to do with worker’s
compensation and being injured on the job site. Now you’re watching this video because
you or someone you know has been injured on the job. Likely, you may have already begun
the steps to initiate a worker’s compensation claim. And a lot of people think that that’s
the only avenue they can go down to seek compensation for the injuries that they’ve sustained
as a result of a workplace accident. But the law in New York is very specific that were
certain types of accidents occur on a job site, the injured employee may be entitled
to other compensation from other companies or people at their job site – such as the
owner of the building or the general contractor on the project. Now there are a lot of very
specific laws in New York that detail what those scenarios are where people can seek
elsewhere, other than just worker’s comp to gain compensation. One example is what’s
called an “elevation related hazard.” Now what is an elevation related hazard? Well,
let’s say you’re on a job site and you need to do some kind of work that requires
you to get up on a scaffold or a ladder. And when you’re up on that scaffold or you’re
up on that ladder, you fall off of it to the ground below and you hurt yourself. Or let’s
take another example. Let’s say that you are lifting things on the job site via some
kind of pulley system and something goes wrong and something falls and hits you. Those are
scenarios that would qualify as an elevation related hazard. Because either you or some
object fell from a distance and you were injured as a result of that fall. Now in those types
of scenarios you may be entitled to compensation from those other companies involved in your
job site. Such as – like I said – the owner of the building, the general contractor,
or a host of other folks. Now, I’m sure you still have a lot of questions about if
your specific case qualifies under one of these specific New York laws and here’s
what I’d like you to do. I want you to give me a call because I have the answer to these
questions and I deal with these things every day. Again, my name is Jonathan Macri and
here at Parker Waichman, we deal with construction related accidents that involve elevation related
hazards and a lot of other types of hazards that occur on the job site – every day of
the week. So once again, my name is Jonathan Macri. I’d love to hear from you and thanks
again for watching.