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A fall at work can cause broken bones, head injuries, and back damage that keep you off the job for months. If you were hurt in a fall anywhere in Berks County, Pennsylvania law gives you the right to medical care and wage-loss benefits, and we are here to make sure you receive them.
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 fall 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.
Falls are one of the most common causes of serious workplace injury in Pennsylvania, on construction sites and in warehouses, hospitals, stores, and plants across Berks County. We handle the full range of work-related fall claims.
Falls from ladders, roofs, scaffolding, and elevated platforms that cause severe injury.
Wet or greasy floors, debris, cords, and uneven surfaces that bring a worker down hard.
Broken steps, missing handrails, and poorly lit stairwells that lead to serious falls.
Falls from trucks, forklifts, loading docks, and machinery during everyday work.
Floor holes, skylights, and unguarded edges that give way or go unmarked.
Falls onto hard floors that cause fractures, head injuries, and back and spine damage.
Your employer’s insurance must pay for the treatment and lost wages you are owed after a fall on the job. Benefits 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 of use of a body part, and death benefits for the families of workers killed on the job. You do not have to prove your employer did anything wrong, only that you were hurt while working. Falls often cause injuries — broken hips, spinal damage, and head trauma — that keep you out of work for a long time, so it matters that your benefits are calculated correctly from the start.
Some Berks County workplaces see far more falls than others. We regularly help workers hurt in construction and roofing, warehousing and distribution, healthcare and nursing, retail and grocery, and manufacturing. Wherever you work, if you fell on the job, you have the right to file a claim.
If a property owner, a negligent contractor, or a defective ladder or lift caused your fall, 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 fall 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 try to value fall injuries and how to push for the full medical care and wage-loss benefits the law allows. 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 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.
