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Falls are one of the most common and most serious ways workers are hurt on the job. If you were injured in a fall at work in Bucks County, Pennsylvania law gives you the right to Bucks County workers’ compensation benefits, and in many cases a separate claim against a negligent third party. For over 34 years, Lerner, Steinberg & Associates has fought for injured workers across the county and helped them recover the medical care and lost wages they are owed.
Pennsylvania workers’ compensation covers almost every worker hurt in a fall on the job, no matter who caused the accident. Whether you fell from a ladder, off a scaffold, down a flight of stairs, or on a wet floor, your employer’s insurance must pay for your medical treatment and replace part of your lost wages while you recover.
Benefits for fall injuries include all reasonable and necessary medical care, wage loss benefits equal to about two-thirds of your average weekly wage, specific loss benefits for the permanent loss or loss of use of a body part, and death benefits for the families of workers killed in fatal falls. Falls frequently cause broken bones, torn ligaments, herniated discs, and traumatic brain and spinal injuries, and workers’ comp is meant to cover exactly this kind of serious, long-term care.
Fall risks follow the work. Across Bucks County, the warehouses and distribution centers along the Route 1 and I-95 corridors in Bristol, Bensalem, and Fairless Hills keep workers on loading docks, mezzanines, and forklifts where falls from height and from equipment are constant hazards. Manufacturing plants expose workers to slick floors, elevated platforms, and catwalks. Retail stores, grocers, and restaurants see slip-and-fall injuries on wet or cluttered floors, while healthcare workers in the county’s hospitals and nursing homes are hurt catching falling patients or slipping on spills.
Construction and skilled-trade work across Doylestown, Newtown, Warrington, and the county’s growing residential developments puts roofers, framers, painters, and maintenance crews on ladders, scaffolds, and roofs every day. A serious fall often means surgery, weeks or months off the job, and a long course of physical therapy. Acting quickly after the injury protects both your health and your right to benefits.
Falls happen in many different ways, and each one raises its own medical and legal questions. We handle workplace fall claims of every kind, including the following.
Defective, damaged, or improperly set ladders cause some of the most common and serious workplace falls.
Collapsing scaffolds, missing guardrails, and unstable platforms lead to severe injuries on construction and industrial sites.
Roofers and maintenance workers fall through weak roofing, unguarded edges, and hidden skylight openings.
Wet floors, spills, loose mats, and cluttered walkways cause falls in stores, kitchens, warehouses, and offices.
Broken steps, missing handrails, and poor lighting turn an ordinary staircase into a serious hazard.
Unmarked or unguarded floor holes, pits, and trenches on job sites cause deep-fall injuries and fatalities.
Workers’ compensation does not pay for pain and suffering. Many falls, though, are caused by someone other than your employer, such as a property owner who let a dangerous condition remain, a general contractor who failed to keep the site safe, or the manufacturer of a defective ladder or scaffold. When a third party’s carelessness played a role in your fall, you can bring a separate personal injury claim against that party on top of your workers’ comp claim.
This two-track approach is one of the most valuable and overlooked rights an injured worker has. Our attorneys review every fall case for third-party liability so that no source of compensation is missed.
Falls are the leading cause of death in construction, and OSHA sets detailed fall-protection standards for a reason. When a fall involves a broken safety rule, such as missing guardrails, no fall-arrest system, an unsafe ladder or scaffold, or an unguarded floor opening, that violation becomes strong evidence of negligence. It can support both your workers’ comp case and any third-party claim. Our attorneys check OSHA compliance on every fall case and use violations to build the strongest claim possible.
Some employers label workers as independent contractors to avoid paying for workers’ compensation. In Pennsylvania, that label does not automatically remove your right to benefits. The law looks at how the work was actually controlled and performed. Our attorneys challenge improper classifications that try to deny injured workers the coverage they have earned.
Pennsylvania sets firm deadlines, and missing even one can end your right to compensation. Three separate clocks matter in every fall case.
Because these deadlines move quickly, the safest step is to speak with a lawyer soon after your injury. You can review the state’s official program through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, then reach out to our office for guidance.
For more than three decades, Mike Lerner and Ben Steinberg have handled workers’ compensation and injury cases for people across Bucks County, and they work on every fall case personally. You deal directly with an attorney, never a case file. They know how insurers try to blame injured workers for their own falls, and they push back for the full medical care and wage loss benefits Pennsylvania law allows.
We pursue every avenue of recovery, including workers’ comp, third-party claims, and product liability, and we work on a contingency basis, so you owe no fee unless we win. If you were hurt in a fall at work anywhere in Bucks County, contact our office for a free consultation and an honest review of your claim.
