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A serious burn can mean weeks in the hospital, painful skin grafts, and permanent scarring that changes your life. If you were burned on the job anywhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania law entitles you to medical care and wage-loss benefits, and we are here to make sure you receive everything you are owed.
For more than 34 years, Lerner, Steinberg & Associates has fought for injured workers across Pennsylvania, and we bring that same hands-on attention to every burn claim in Berks County. You work directly with Mike Lerner or Ben Steinberg, never a paralegal, and you owe no fee unless we win. Berks County is one of the areas we serve across the Reading region, and you can view all of them on our areas served page.
Burns happen in factories, kitchens, warehouses, and on construction and utility crews across Berks County. They are often severe, and the medical care can stretch for months or years. We handle the full range of work-related burn claims.
Burns from flames, hot surfaces, molten material, and contact with heated equipment.
Exposure to acids, solvents, cleaning agents, and industrial chemicals that burn skin and eyes.
Contact with live wires and equipment, plus arc-flash blasts that cause deep internal burns.
Hot liquids, steam lines, and boilers in kitchens, food plants, and industrial settings.
Skin burns from machinery, belts, and abrasive surfaces during a workplace accident.
Burns to the airways and lungs from smoke, hot gases, and toxic fumes in a fire.
Your employer’s insurance must cover the treatment and lost wages that follow a serious burn. Benefits include all reasonable and necessary medical care — emergency treatment, skin grafts, reconstructive surgery, and rehabilitation — along with wage-loss benefits equal to about two-thirds of your average weekly wage. Pennsylvania also pays specific-loss benefits for serious and permanent scarring or disfigurement of the head, face, or neck, which matters in many burn cases, and death benefits for the families of workers who do not survive their injuries. You do not have to prove anyone was at fault, only that you were hurt while working.
Some Berks County workplaces carry far more burn risk than others. We regularly help workers hurt in manufacturing and metalworking, food processing and commercial kitchens, warehousing and distribution, construction and electrical work, and healthcare. Wherever you work, if a burn happened on the job, you have the right to file a claim.
If a defective machine, a faulty chemical container, or another company on the site caused your burn, you may have a separate claim on top of your workers’ compensation benefits — one that can include money for pain and suffering that workers’ comp does not pay. We look at every burn case from both angles and pursue them together so nothing is left on the table.
We help injured workers throughout the county, including Reading, Wyomissing, Muhlenberg Township, Exeter Township, Sinking Spring, and West Reading. If you do not see your community listed, call us, because we serve every part of Berks County. You can see the full county overview on our Berks County workers’ compensation page.
Pennsylvania sets firm deadlines, and missing one can end your right to benefits.
You can review the official program through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, then call us for guidance on your own claim.
For more than three decades, Mike Lerner and Ben Steinberg have handled workers’ compensation and injury cases for people across Pennsylvania, and they work on every claim personally. They know how insurers value burn injuries, including the long-term cost of scarring and reconstructive care, and how to push for the full benefits the law allows. We work on a contingency basis, so you owe no fee unless we win.
If you were burned on the job anywhere in Berks County, we are ready to review your claim and tell you honestly where you stand. Contact Lerner, Steinberg & Associates today for a free consultation.
